Word: woo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...million, but it just might work." Everything else is there too-the whiplash body English and frenetic tap routines, the hard-times songs about riches-to-rags and good-times-acomin', the Spanish-town song ("Do you remember those nights of splendor"), the train song ("Clickity-clackity-woo-woo") and the rain song ("Pitter-patter-what's-the-matter...
...distant second to Xerox in the duplicating-machine area, 3M began field-testing its "color in color" copier last spring, says it will start delivering the machines on both a selling and a leasing basis within a year. To woo customers, 3M will, beginning early in 1969, open six display centers across the U.S. One of the most important selling points is that 3M's pioneering copier, by contrast with early color television, boasts high-quality color-in solids and halftones alike...
Meanwhile, Spiro T. Agnew veered more sharply to the right in a deliberate effort to woo Wallaceites to Nixon. At times, except for his flat Baltimore accent, Agnew indeed could almost have changed places with Wallace. In Woodbridge, N.J., he attacked "phony intellectuals who don't understand what we mean by hard work and patriotism." Probably not even Wallace would have said, however, as Agnew did in Detroit, that "if you've seen one ghetto area, you've seen them all." Certainly few could have matched his airy defense of the established order. "You may give...
...Democrat, his billboards identify him simply as a "Courageous Prairie Statesman." With a stake of nearly $100,000, two-thirds of it raised at a single fund-raising dinner featuring Ted Kennedy. McGovern is investing almost a third of his budget in a door-to-door canvass to woo back the voters he needs. A skillful debater, he put another third of his funds into newspaper and television ads and question-and-answer appearances on radio...
...debts of at least $100 million, Citroen is eager to hitch up with another auto manufacturer. Charles de Gaulle would like a purely French solution: perhaps a merger of the three major French carmakers, to be called Automobile de France. If that happens, Fiat may be sorely tempted to woo Germany's Volkswagen. Such a combine would dwarf anything that France could put together...