Word: sweet-talk
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...helping in a bookstore. By 1912, he was in Kansas City, determined to make a go of greeting cards. The venture almost died as soon as it started; Hall was $17,000 in debt when a flash fire wiped out his printing plant. Luckily, he was able to sweet-talk a local bank into an unsecured $25,000 loan, and he has not taken a step back since. By the late 19303, Hallmark was one of the top three cards...
...Meanwhile the American Exchange had suspended Cornucopia from trading for failure to file required financial statements. Nevertheless, even though Belle & Co. only held options, they were able to install officers in some of the companies (making textiles, hot-water heaters and electronics, a printing plant, real estate, etc.) and sweet-talk the banks into loans on the companies' names and supposed assets...
...switch from the customary muscle operation, the Professor on at least one occasion used sweet-talk in pursuing the mob's objectives, according to committee files. "Inasmuch," he once implored a Jersey City cargo exporter, "as the Jersey City waterfront has immoral and undependable and unpredictable working types, I think you should consider moving your operators to Brooklyn [where the docks are run by "Tough Tony" Anastasia, the late Albert's brother]. All I can offer you is the guarantee of a scholar and a gentleman. Let me assure you that I will give you 5,000 spiritually...
Meaning Business. When General Mark Clark, Lieut. General Maxwell Taylor and U.S. Ambassador Ellis Briggs came to sweet-talk him on his terrace, proud, headstrong Syngman Rhee held firm. "You came here to save us," he told one caller. "Are we saved if, after three years of war, you sign away the principles you have said you were fighting for?" The Americans tried to explain that the U.N. was fighting in Korea to stop aggression, that aggression had been stopped, that unification would have to wait for the peace conference. Unification, they said, is only a political objective...
Sugarbush (Doris Day & Frankie Laine; Columbia). South African sweet-talk about Pop Topic A. Pleasant enough to become a bestseller...