Word: woos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hear No Evil. Iron-jawed Max Bishop, in his first ambassadorial post, sees Thailand taking the disastrous course of China in the early '40s, and regards every criticism of the Thai government as Communist inspired. While the Russians and the Chinese woo Southeast Asia with honeyed words, Bishop's inflexible, chip-on-the-shoulder attitude grates on the easygoing, polite Thais. In his rush to ingratiate himself with Pibul (who smilingly referred to him recently as "my ambassador"), Bishop has ignored or antagonized regular foreign-office channels...
...about Collier's editorial prospects. To shake up Companion, he moved out Editor Woodrow Wirsig, installed his own assistant for magazine editorial direction, 43-year-old Theodore Strauss, novelist, onetime film scripter and a savvy alumnus of LIFE and the New York Times. Strauss's mission: to woo "the modern woman with a wide range of interests...
...Burma had bartered from Russia, Czechoslovakia and East Germany at the exchange rate of $29.12 a ton. India was not trying to pull a fast one: New Delhi said its bid was based on cement prices quoted to it directly by the Soviet Union. In its headlong rush to woo, Russia had been willing to sell more cheaply to India than to Burma, a country which in the Communist scale of things is not as important...
...Heat on Tab Hunter?" and "The Tragedy of Ava Gardner." The new magazine is the brain child of two Hollywood pressagents, gets its disks from Rainbo Records, whose president, Jack Brown, ran a World War II experimental project for the U.S. Navy to combat mosquito pollution by wooing the insects with recorded mosquito mating sounds. In its second issue Hear plans to woo fans with the breathy, come-hither voice of Marilyn Monroe, who will chat "about her romances . . . and all sorts of things...
...presence of opposition observers, instead of secretly, as in the past. A real election became a possibility; other candidates earnestly got into the fight. Odria, who used to say that "it has been shown beyond any doubt that it is impossible to coexist with APRA," began to woo APRA's vote himself...