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Word: woo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...house in Arlington, Va. Driblets of cash, perpetuated the party's existence, and Rockwell's storm troopers were soon garnering headlines in ugly street brawls and riots. With almost no cash left, Rockwell last January renamed his group the National Socialist White People's Party to woo extreme racists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radicals: Finis for the Fuhrer | 9/1/1967 | See Source »

...International Seminar will hold its final open forum of the summer at 8 p.m. Wednesday in Emerson 105. Messrs. Jayasuriya, Latin, Nishi, Oduhton, Shamsuddoulah, and Woo will discuss "Prospects of Democracy in Asia and Africa...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Afro-Asian Democracy | 8/15/1967 | See Source »

...better than to keep the Middle East in chaos, prevent it from supplying oil to the West, and drive the U.S. completely out of the area. There were also the nonaligned states, which regard Nasser as one of their prophets. There was India, which never loses a chance to woo Arab support for its Kashmir dispute with Moslem Pakistan. And there were some Black African nations whose leaders feel them selves bound to support Nasser in the cause of African unity. As speaker after speaker sounded off, the winner of the war in the Middle East found itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: United Nations: The Psychedelic Debate | 6/30/1967 | See Source »

...undisputed front runner. He is not at all reluctant to use his government power for his own advantage. His campaign symbol-a flying black dragon-is seen nightly on the state-owned television channel. He has sprinkled the countryside with billboards that woo the small man: THE GOVERNMENT OF NGUYEN CAO KY IS THE GOVERNMENT OF THE POOR. He has bid for the votes of the 620,000 soldiers and 220,000 civil servants by granting them 15% raises. His ally, National Police Chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan, is using his own persuasive powers among the provincial chiefs, and the boss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Battle of Ballots | 6/23/1967 | See Source »

...sprung swiftly at comparatively small risk and cost for the attacker, are less likely than ordinary mergers to run afoul of Government antitrust obstacles. Ordinarily, the cost of a tender offer runs no higher than 3% of the deal-for legal fees, a splurge of advertising to woo stockholders, and interest charges on temporary financing, if it is needed. While proxy fights often turn into marathons (Realty Developer Philip Levin's battle with MGM is now more than a year old and far from over), tender offers generally click or flop within a fortnight. One reason: stockbrokers find them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mergers: The Tender War | 6/9/1967 | See Source »

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