Wesley Clark Word of the Day: suasion

[Cocoa]

Apologies to the Clark supporter who was doing this, I hope you'll be ok with a Kerry supporter posting one. I heard Clark use this word,
which I'd never heard before, tonight at the dinner in NH.

It also happened to be Dictionary.com's word of the day, one week before
the Chimp ignored the memo in Crawford, TX.

http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/archive/2001/08/13.html

Word of the Day for Monday August 13, 2001

suasion \SWAY-zhun\, noun:
The act of persuading; persuasion.

As in the 1960s, violence converged with dynamism in American life, but unlike that subsequent period of protest, the militancy of the 1930s was restrained by the long arm of an American political tradition that favored reform by moral suasion.
--Nona Balakian, The World of William Saroyan

He visualized a world wherein power is exercised peacefully by moral suasion and political acumen, a world of idealism in many ways.
--George Perkovich, India's Nuclear Bomb

Some of the earliest protests of the incipient civil rights movement demanded the removal of baseball's color line. Beyond this cultural suasion, legal efforts to mandate integration were under way almost two years before Jackie Robinson donned a Brooklyn Dodger uniform.
--Dean Chadwin, Those Damn Yankees

Even more reassuring--more wishful and escapist, from our secularist-modern perspective--is the idea that the universe is moral and hence responsive to moral suasion.
--Yi-Fu Tuan, Escapism

[windansea]

1. whoa!!

thats a real word I take it

[Jerseycoa]

2. I'm sure WillyBrandt would love your doing it

:)