Word: woos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...issue within the council was whether Israel should be punished as well as censured. The Syrians had asked that the U.N. expel their neighbor and apply economic sanctions. The Russians, eager these days to woo the Arabs, demanded that the Israelis pay indemnities to Syria. The Western Big Three resolution condemned Israel for its "deliberate violation" of the U.N. armistice, and warned of punitive measures if it happened again. Whatever form the censure finally takes, Israel's action had already been unanimously condemned by all eleven Security Council members...
...last week demonstrated, in perhaps the most important utterance of the campaign, that "tomorrow's secret" might hold consequences pertinent to France's future as an international power and as a Western ally. Mendès, looking for votes on the left, made a move to woo voters away from the Communists-and did so by bending his policy to appeal to pro-Communist voters...
...variety. One of them, written after the Eisenhower break in the Stock Market, predicted an oncoming United States depression with the profound conclusion that "It need not be pointed out that if this nation suffered another depression of serious proportions, it would lose considerable influence in its effort to woo the world to capitalism instead of communism...
...academy jingle. However talented and rebellious, aspirants to this particular Olympus must first appease the gods-in-being by eating a certain amount of literary humble pie. An applicant must beg for admission in terms as carefully prescribed as an ancient Hittite ritual; his friends must sedulously woo the Immortals in his behalf. "Is your poetry any good?" snapped a windy old Immortal at Victor Hugo when he was seeking entrance. "I have been told, sir," answered Hugo, "that it is as fine as your speeches, but I don't believe...
...this point, the movie cries for woo and woe. Both are obligingly served forthwith. As a knowledge-spouting (her defense against wolves) TV career woman, Cyd Charisse pops up to convince Kelly that, for her sweet sake, he cannot let his fighter take a dive. Dailey also has a crisis: the star of his outrageously successful TV program, Midnight with Madeline (a part that features some fine burlesque by Dolores Gray), temperamentally revolts against her prospective guest of the evening, a Bronx crackpot whose claim to fame is his model of the Taj Mahal, constructed in 16 years with nothing...