Word: endearing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This attitude does not endear him to administrators of California's schools or colleges. Indeed, a few are wondering if Brown, who they thought was a liberal Democrat, is more anti-education than was his conservative Republican predecessor, Ronald Reagan...
...anxious to lounge some afternoon on the pastoral lot, you'll have to overcome one stumbling block: the high wire mesh fence that encloses three sides of the property. And climbing it may not endear you to Harvard officials. While they say there's no reason why University members cannot use the land, they also express reservations about mounting the fence to get there...
There's nothing like an historical memory to endear a woman to the charms of male society...
...which seems to derive much of its momentum from the revelation, at well-spaced intervals, of its members' sexual habits. Bloomsbury, was, we know now, stranger than we could have imagined. Each month for the last year or so has brought a new book calculated to shock, titillate, and endear these brilliant perverts to out hearts. Lytton Strachey's fascination with the eroticism of the ear, John Maynard Keynes's penchant for the hand, and G. Lowes Dickinson's boot fetishism have all been the subject of recent studies. At the center of it all stands Virginia Woolf, whose sexuality...
...hard time shaking. While as a fictioneer he likes to wallow in romance, as a social commentator he writes an analysis of Harvard club life which is the sort of hogwash upon which climbers thrive. But just because this isn't the sort of biography that will endear Marquand to posterity doesn't mean that it isn't entertaining...