Word: woo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Marked as a comer during Watergate hearings but has done little since ... A good compromise bet to woo the South and appease the liberals, and popular through the Middle West besides ... Sturdy, vigorous, everybody's second choice ... Biggest drawback: his nomination could cost the G.O.P. a precious Senate seat...
...government that does not include members of the Junta Democrática, an organization founded last year that supposedly represents centrist and leftist groups but is probably a Communist front. If the new regime fails to bring the Socialists into the government, the Communists may also try to woo them into an opposition national-front movement. "If Juan Carlos does not offer change and change quickly," warned a party official last week in Madrid, "he will be consigning himself to oblivion." From Paris, Carrillo was blunter, vowing "a wave of terror that will lead to a new civil...
...would woo me, Make mention only of yourself, Make mention of your deeds, Make mention of the wildfire, You fearlessly strode through, When it burned all around the crag...
...available women who happened to sail by. Duddy Kravitz had just opened to excellent reviews, and apparently everyone on the island had seen American Graffiti. Dreyfuss stood ready to enjoy all the perks of movie stardom, and would seize an assistant director's megaphone to pitch woo across the water. "You know why I get so many dates?" he told the envious Spielberg. "Because I have a 40-ft. face...
...they are not merely an ocular gymnasium. There is a lyrical side to Ri ley's work. The color, in particular, is taxingly subtle. It does not woo the eye, but it does present an unexpectedly wide range of situations, from a slow, impalpable, pearly shimmer of greens and grays to the sharp, exhilarating flicker and reversal of green against red against blue in such paintings as Paean...