Word: wooing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...paper started again, the trustees persuaded 850 employees to come back to work without immediately getting a month's back wages $187,000. With no change in the editorial direction, the trustees hope to keep the Post going long enough to plan its reorganization and woo a buyer. But the paper had already lost some of its features, staffers and circulation (240,000 before it closed down) to other Boston dailies. After running downhill at a fast clip under Fox's four-year control (TIME, July 9), the 125-year-old Post probably had no more than...
With his eye on the balance of De Laveaux's wealth, Mazurkiewicz began to woo his widow. Rebuffed at first, Mazurkiewicz persisted. At last he persuaded her to give him several thousand dollars for safekeeping by warning her that he had a tip that the secret police were about to raid her home. When she asked for the money's return, Mazurkiewicz shot her−and her sister for good measure−and buried them both beneath the concrete floor of his garage...
Mixing plugs with politics, the hucksters were making the most of their quadrennial opportunity to woo more than 11,000 delegates, alternates, journalists, wives and hangers-on at the convention. Outside the big hotels, 225 white (for purity) Fords, Lincolns and Mercurys stood by to whisk Democrats in air-conditioned and cost-free comfort to the International Amphitheatre. At the convention hall itself, the party that has not infrequently blasted Big Business let out space for the "American Showcase" promotion display of big business. The 22 advertisers hoped their free-handout booths might be picked up by roving TV cameramen...
Last week an army spokesman flew into Djakarta to woo popular support for the army's new sideline. "The army smuggles continuously and purposely," he said, and challenged the Attorney General to prove any graft. "Our books show that it has not been done for personal gain but to finance the building of barracks and other expenditures for troops...
...home this week, and each will bring a heaviness of heart and a torment of fear. Since last March, between 10% and 20% of the Chinese students and ex-students in the U.S. have received such letters, for they are a part of Peking's intensive campaign to woo the refugees back. Invariably they come from the students' families, who may not have written for years. They seldom dwell upon domestic trivialities, but upon the glories of the "New China" and the boundless opportunities to be found there. But the most frightening thing about them is not what...