Word: flattering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Khrushchev's pleasantness stopped at his ice-cold bullet eyes. The Facts of Life. Thus began what was, from Washington to Manhattan to Los Angeles to San Francisco, not so much a move to reduce world tension as a historic and tireless one-man campaign to cajole, flatter, wheedle, shame, threaten and defy the U.S. into changing its way of looking at the world...
...Roman film set, Actress Rita Gam had a visitor. "At last here's a man I can ask to my apartment without making my husband the least bit jealous," said Rita, in a statement not exactly calculated to flatter big (a gefilte 198½ lbs.), bagel-eyed Harry Golden, 57, bestselling author (Only in America, For 2? Plain) and publisher of the Carolina Israelite. Back in Manhattan, Rita's husband, Viking Press Executive Tom Guinzburg, tossed in his own 2?, said: "We're all good Israelis...
When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices...
...stores and shoppers on the kind of clothes women want to buy. The consensus: the U.S. woman does not want novelties or revolutionary, untested style changes that make a heavy investment in clothes a risk. Women buy the most, said Kirby, Block's Cynthia Marks, when the clothes flatter the figure, give them confidence and a sense of fashion authority. More than ever, they recognize the value of quality and will pay accordingly...
WEST GERMANY: Both German delegations were sitting in a strictly advisory capacity, and Bonn's Foreign Minister von Brentano would not even flatter the East Germans by his presence...