Word: wooing
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...just feeling his way around in a lot of trees. He had spoken as few ringing words about labor as possible. The reason: even his enemies in the union wanted him to be mayor (and thus out of union officialdom) so there was little point in it. Instead, to woo the public, he harangued audiences about Detroit's dirty alleys, its street-railway fares, tried hard to be everyman's friend...
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, back in San Francisco, gave Banker Y. C. Woo a pen used at the Jap surrender ceremony; it was a pen the Admiral had borrowed from the banker four years...
Song Chin Woo, a fiftyish editor with a long record in the secret nationalist movement, is remaining aloof from parties while things jell. Cho Mansik, called the Gandhi of Korea, is a Christian church elder whom the Russians reportedly brought out of retirement to head the municipal government of industrial Pyengyang. As for the long-exiled government at Chung king, some Koreans would welcome it as a ready-made instrument for wielding political power. More likely, its members will return as private individuals...
Last week, the man with the key paid his first visit to Hollywood. To woo him, the gilded city turned out as it never had - clear down to its $500-a-week writers...
...entire motor industry was girding itself for battle. Powerful, sprawling General Motors, which operates plants in many of the 22 states where F.A.A. locals are chartered, paid for advertisements to woo foremen away from the union. Meanwhile the industry buzzed with rumors that if F.A.A. persisted, its members would become straw bosses and a new category of '"super-foremen" would take over their work...