Word: woo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Protracted Woo. All these efforts to destroy the prevailing Filipino attitude of bahala na (easygoing fatalism) depend largely on U.S. help. As an incentive to foreign investors. Macapagal has made the peso convertible, with good results-the first four months of this year show a $23 million surplus in balance of payments compared with a $27 million deficit for the same period last year. He is hoping to set up a private, U.S.-Philippine development bank. But he is often hamstrung by a Congress still dominated by Garcia's Nacionalista Party, whose members cannot be turned out until...
...effort to woo Africans away from Northern Rhodesia's black nationalist parties, Federal Prime Minister Sir Roy Welensky's followers recently set up a political organization called "Build a Nation." The nationalists got sore when the organization's headquarters in Lusaka displayed pictures of both white and black political leaders, showing fiery, black Nationalist Kenneth Kaunda alongside white supremacists and Uncle Toms. To protest, 15 African girls pranced into the Build a Nation office last week. When the manager refused to remove Kaunda's picture, off came their clothes. Buff naked, the strippers danced about...
...very popular with G.O.P. regulars anyway, and in a closed-circuit TV 'appearance last fortnight at $100-a-plate Republican dinners in 17 cities, he was actually booed. Barry Goldwater is considered too conservative to appeal to the independent, middle-of-the-road voters that the G.O.P. must woo if it hopes to win. All of which leaves the field wide open for a new face...
...campaign to woo West Germany into bilateral political talks, Moscow dangles the bait of profitable trade agreements. Even without additional deals, reported Bonn last week, West German trade with the Soviet bloc last year topped $1 billion-13% higher than in 1960. (U.S.-German trade last year: about $2.3 billion.) Most of the exchange with Moscow consisted of West German machinery and semifinished metal goods for Soviet petroleum products and commercial gold used in jewelry. A third major category of Russian exports is foodstuffs, but, said one Bonn official last week: "There's a limit to how much caviar...
Boston disk jockey "Woo Woo" Ginsburg has been playing the record frequently on his night show (WMEX 1510), calling the dance a future hit. "It's the first record I've come across where the singer is worse than I am," he comments every so often...