Word: wooing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...market level. The Federal National Mortgage Association offered a $165 million issue of secondary market debentures at 4⅜%, its highest rate ever. The Federal Housing Administration, aiming to attract money for homebuilding, increased maximum interest rates on FHA-backed mortgages from 5% to 5¼%. And to woo more buyers from middle-and even low -income groups, it slashed down-payment requirements from 5% on the first $9,000 to 3% on the first $10,000 of a mortgage...
...persuading more young Catholics into the life of true scholarship, says Weigel, there must be no urging "with the whip of the Church's need ... It is essential to woo young men and women to this vocation because it is good in itself ... for next to the contemplation of God, the contemplation of God's creation is the noblest action of man. This we must preach. This our youth must hear. Hearing, they will be attracted...
Producer-Director Stanley Kramer ranged expensively (budget: $4,000,000) over much of Spain in shooting his brave try at an epic. To woo realism, he faked virtually nothing; even his big gun. an awesome example of the perversity of inanimate objects, is actually what it seems. To give his film size, Kramer set it against Spain's brooding mountain grandeur and its trackless plains, its magnificent cathedrals and haunted, fairy-tale towns. He enlisted the services of Dictator Franco's army and thousands of Spanish extras...
...Cabinet officers running had vanished. So had the opponents of nine junta officers, including Nasser's chief political adviser, Wing Commander Ali Sabri. In one case, 22 candidates had to be struck off to guarantee the unopposed election of a favored candidate. In an effort to woo support from the middle class that Nasser has estranged, a handful of businessmen and bankers were encouraged by judicious sabotage of their rivals. In five constituencies all candidates were declared unsatisfactory...
...same question, she says, that she muffed during a "warmup session" before the show. In their growing desperation to check falling ratings that have knocked six quiz-panel shows off the air since October, the programs may be taking greater risks, especially in trying to woo celebrities as contestants. Showman Nils T. Granlund, who won $10,000 from The Big Surprise on "extremely easy" questions, admits that some of the questions he answered during his screening interviews may have turned up on the show itself. One baseball star who was approached to appear on $64,000 Question says that...