Word: woo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...qualify for aid without having to join military alliances. Of his predecessors. New York Businessman Ellsworth Bunker and Kentucky's U.S. Senator John Sherman Cooper were exceptionally able and well liked, while Chester Bowles, though popular at the time, is now remembered as having tried too hard to woo the Indians. Galbraith has a wider field of effectiveness and is closer to Nehru than either of his immediate predecessors, for the simple reason, as New Delhi sees it, that "they have more to talk about...
...held out longest was Rodriguez Echaverria. He ordered out hired thugs and government sound trucks to try to woo the mob and break the strike. Then Rodriguez Echaverria stiffly rejected as ''inadmissible" a compromise plan that Puppet Balaguer quietly proposed to Dr. Viriato Fiallo, head of the opposition U.C.N., under which Balaguer would resign in favor of a Swiss-style Council of State...
Shostakovich was clearly determined to woo a large audience, and there was never much doubt that he would succeed. With his political credentials in apple-pie order, he was rewarded by the usually cautious critics with an instantaneous rave. Said Izuestia: "Just as today we feel an involuntary envy for the contemporaries of Beethoven, Paganini and Tchaikovsky, so will future generations envy us who first heard the Twelfth Symphony of Dmitry Shostakovich, the greatest composer of the 20th century...
...following night new Director Gustav Rudolf Sellner was not so lucky. He bowed in with avant-garde Composer Giselher Klebe's new opera, Alkmene, an academic, humorless scoring of the ribald Amphitryon legend, in which that incorrigible old satyr Jupiter turns himself into Amphitryon's double to woo Amphitryon's handsome wife...
Faced with such competition, airlines have spent more energy and money trying to win passengers from one another than trying to woo more people into the air. An estimated 55% of today's air travelers are businessmen, a fact that increased the recent recession's impact on airlines. Companies shifted executives from first class to coach and eliminated unnecessary trips. This year, for the first time in the industry's 40-year history, more than half of all travel is in the less profitable coach class...