Word: woo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...underdeveloped countries. In some areas that the Chinese have cultivated, they may even end by making more enemies than friends. By lending Somalia $20 million to buy arms for its campaign to grab adjacent territory, Peking has angered neighboring Kenya, where it has also spent heavily to woo the new nation. It may succeed at least in raising Russia's ante in Africa and Asia. At week's end, as Chou left for Algeria, Nikita Khrushchev was reportedly planning his own swing through Africa. Before visiting Cairo next spring, he may also junket to India and Nepal...
...West Germany's Social Democratic Party since 1952, a portly Socialist who spent twelve years in exile during the Nazi dictatorship, returned in 1946 to help rebuild the party under the leadership of fiery Kurt Schumacher, took command after Schumacher's death, and though he attempted to woo the middle-class vote, suffered resounding defeats at the hand of Konrad Adenauer in the 1953 and 1957 elections, after which he increasingly delegated leadership to younger politicians; of a lung ailment; in Bonn...
...sadly, Goodman's contact is too quickly made, and partly for this reason, illusory. That is why be needs so much of it. He can woo and win an audience of students so readily because he himself seems to be undergoing an unhappily extended adolescence. His need to expose himself so utterly to young people reflects a kind of adolescent exhibitionism. By his candid confession, he is still wrestling with his own sexual unhappiness. Why then were these Harvard student such easy prey to Goodman's seductive approach...
...aide, but Fermoyle, inconsolable over Mona, gets a two-year leave from the priesthood. Such leave is rarely granted in fact, and even in the movie Fermoyle is still bound by vows of celibacy. While teaching in Vienna, he meets minx-eyed Fraulein Romy Schneider, who pledges herself to woo him away from God. He remains pure-his decencies are legion-but not without a struggle. "I cannot ask you to kiss me while you are still married to the church," Romy purrs, "but in Vienna it is a sin even for a married man not to dance the waltz...
...generally carefree and happy-go-lucky. Rousmanier says Kennedy was "very well-liked and admired" Another friend said Kennedy exuded "an aura of leadership even in personal affairs. If you were on his side, you were really in and that was tremendous. If you were not, he would woo you if he wanted you and could usually succeed in getting his way. If he didn't want you, he would cast you in outer darkness...