Word: woos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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About 2 B.C., Roman Poet Ovid, the Oscar Wilde of his day, told in his Art of Love how to woo a lady...
...large theatrical interests. Skouras argues that networks of movie houses with their own TV channels or circuits can outbid TV stations and advertisers for rights to sports events, operas, Broadway shows. Such programs, replacing second features on the double bill, would be good enough, says Skouras, to woo the customers from their free home sets...
...Poland, he calls Russian influence something less than welcome. He reminds the reader that Poles are 97 percent Catholic, 98 percent anti-Russian, and 99 percent passionately Polish. He also points out that they are altogether unsympathetic with Soviet attempts to woo the Germans, who they recall, killed more than 8,000,000 Poles. The speed of Polish recovery is based on Silesian industry. Should Russia's pals, in Germany set return of that region as a condition of their friendship, the Kremlin would be very seriously embarrassed...
...Woo Harvard Market...
...woo smokers, most U.S. cigarette makers long ago abandoned the naive idea that smoking was a mere pleasure. Instead, tobaccomen puffed up ad campaigns with testimonials from athletes and movie stars, and plugged such slogans as "less nicotine," "soothes the nerves," "aids digestion," "relieves fatigue," "never irritates the throat," and it's important to the "T-zone...