Word: wooing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Years ago, Montevideo-born Nardone, stevedore, union organizer, newsman and backlands traveling salesman, sat in Congress as a Colorado. He quit in disgust when told to confine himself to drawing his pay and keeping his mouth shut. Taking to the air in 1942, gossipy Benito Nardone set out to woo the farmers, got their rapt attention by giving weather and crop information, advising farm workers to organize, "so you will not be cheated by city cutthroats and moneylenders." He organized 250 chapters of a Rural Federation, soon claimed 120,000 votes, and when this year's campaign began...
From the moment he left his desk at the Korea Times in Seoul last June, Managing Editor Choi Byung Woo was plagued with troubles. The amiable, book-loving newsman had hardly started his tour of Southeast Asia when British plainclothesmen nabbed him in Malaya for asking searching questions of a British naval officer at the bar in Singapore's Cockpit Hotel. The embarrassed police quickly established that asking questions was Choi's business; he chuckled and headed for Formosa. Early in September Choi was one of the first newsmen to hit the beaches of beleaguered Quemoy, safely wading...
...Dwight Eisenhower, going beyond mere denunciation of "indirect aggression," advanced positive economic and political proposals. Scarcely had Ike finished speaking, when the Soviet Union gingerly followed the U.S. lead. Explained one U.S. diplomat: "The Soviets are washed up in the Security Council. They know they've got to woo the General Assembly to get anywhere in the U.N., and they have wised up to the fact that sweet reasonableness may get them farther...
...years after the end of Long Day's Journey, when O'Neill's first one-acters were making him the symbol and idol of the Provincetown Players. If, after 40 years, Author Boulton's memory is correct and young Eugene Gladstone O'Neill did woo and win her with the lines she attributes to him, it is no wonder that much of the story reads like a parody of Victorian melodrama. O'Neill once explained that he had trained himself as a playwright by reading "nothing but plays, great plays, melodrama" until...
...puppet Kadar regime more and more in recent months is the "silent strike" of Hungary's unjailed writers, who refuse to raise a pen in salute to the government. Kadar's literary commissar is a hack essayist aptly named George Boloni, who is vainly trying to woo or to coerce the silent strikers. To preserve the illusion of literary activity, the regime reprints old books. Scoffs Journalist Paul Tabori, a longtime exile in Britain: "If they can find a poet of a hundred years ago who wrote 'The dawn is red,' he's now hailed...