Word: sweet-talk
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After classes, we were free. Free to visit museums, to go to concerts and movies, to try to sweet-talk the lady at the Intourist theater ticket office, or to visit friends and new acquaintances. But sooner or later we had to be free to shop for food...
...gulf between Carter and the union leaders has been especially wide and deep since the President met with AFL-CIO Chief George Meany several weeks ago and tried-in vain-to sweet-talk him into supporting a general wage hold-down. As a union official who attended that White House session told TIME Correspondent Richard Hornik: "Carter came in with his little sermonette, and when we did not accept everything he said, he stopped listening to us. He should realize that meetings like these are not Sunday school...
...more than Caldwell. Her success story is anything but logical or coherent. Her energy would be impressive for a basketball star; for a beach ball of a woman, it is phenomenal. Her friend Beverly Sills describes Sarah's voice as "Ezio Pinza imitating a woman," but she can sweet-talk almost anybody out of, and into, anything...
...good or bad, even ol' Marse Joe, dey white folks day gwine make you feel black-assed. Never seed a white man smile at me befo'. How come dat 'plies, Nat? Figger a white man treat you right you gwine feel white-assed. Naw suh! Young Massah, old massah sweet-talk me, I jes' feel black-assed th'ough and th'ough. Figger when I gets to heaven like you say I is, do good Lord hisself even He gwine make old Hark feel black-assed, standin' befo' de golden throne. Dere He is, white as snow, givin...
...noise that U.S. troops in South Viet Nam have been getting from the girl deejay they call Hanoi Hannah, the North Vietnamese version of Axis Sally or Tokyo Rose. To compete with Hannah, the U.S. Armed Forces Radio is having Chris tape a series of hour-long music and sweet-talk shows to broadcast from Saigon. "I'm picking the records and saying whatever comes into my head," purrs Chris. "Mostly, I think, they just want to hear a feminine voice from home...