Word: charm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seven hours; male Chinese silkworm moths have been known to home in on intended mates from as far away as seven miles. Since a female under a bell jar will stir nothing in males on the outside only inches away, biologists have concluded that the secret of her charm must be an odor-from a substance so strong that a few molecules send males fluttering into the wind, and so selective that only males of her own species are attracted...
...using his illness in their war of nerves. The most effective method is a vicious appeal to voodoo believers, who are convinced that Duvalier is powerful because of ouangas that he planted about Port-au-Prince. As every practitioner of voodoo knows, the surest way to deprive a charm of its power is to apply human excrement. Last week the President's enemies went after what was supposed to be one of his strongest ouangas: the grave of his father, a tailor, who died last year. Grave robbers pried open the above-ground family tomb in Port-au-Prince...
...Kentucky-born Harold Helm went to work for the 135-year-old Chemical Bank in 1920 straight from Princeton, was made assistant cashier six years later at 25, one of the youngest men in the company's history in that job. Coolly efficient and able to turn on charm to convince a client or win over a potential ally. Helm became vice president in 1929, first vice president in 1946, president in 1947, finally took over as chairman in 1956, when former chairman N. Baxter Jackson reached retirement age. Never one to stop growing. Helm charts the bank...
...increase efficiency, checkers are going back to school. In Houston, independents and chains send their checkers to a four-week course at the University of Houston called "Grocery Checking with Charm," the nation's first such course. It teaches them personality and poise, how to dress and make up properly, how to discuss problems with customers, how to stand on a hard floor all day without becoming grouchy (keep a straight back and a stiff upper...
With her waist-length pigtail, goofy clowning and hillbilly charm, Comedienne Burnett seems to have escaped from a cartoonist's drawing board. Whether she is quaffing one goblet of mead too many, chewing the wax grapes in her corsage and spitting out the seeds, or opening her mouth to grapefruit size to bellow that she's Shy, Actress Burnett makes her musical comedy debut a choicely comic event...