Word: woos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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These flash and vanish; woo them not to stay...
...Texas Republicans went through a strange maneuver of their own. They endorsed the Democratic ticket for Senator, governor and all other state offices, hoping thereby to woo Democrats to Eisenhower and Nixon. The Republicans have high hopes for Ike's flying sweep across the state after a big 62nd birthday party in San Antonio...
...Europe, a feeble policy for South America, little policy for the Middle East, and changing policies for Asia? Must we go on writing off the Far East at one moment and at almost the next finding our sons fighting and dying in Korea? Must we at one time woo the Soviets as though they could be trusted, and then fall into hysterical fear of them? You and I know statesmanship can do better than that...
...something inherently fearsome about voters blindly supporting a man, neither knowing nor caring where he stands. Moreover, it is hard to see how a Bushman-like silence will really help him in the scramble for delegates. His strength is in the Liberal Republican wing. To gain delegates, he must woo more conservative Republicans, who distrust him for his honeymoon with the Administration foreign policy. Many believe--and no Ike supporter has denied--that his domestic philosophy would ring pleasantly in the ears of conservatives...
...opponents were quick to point out that 1) he wasn't up against his real opposition, Ike Eisenhower, in Wisconsin, and 2) he didn't get a majority of the votes cast. But he outdistanced a campaigning Warren and a campaigning Stassen, whose forces tried to woo Eisenhower votes. It was an important political round for Taft...