Word: woos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year job as consultant on poetry in English to the Library of Congress, old (84) Poet Robert Frost cosily offered his chipper views on the universe: "I've waged a lover's quarrel with the world ever since I felt old enough to woo it with dash. I was stodgy only when I was young. I never dared to be radical for fear it would make me conservative when I was old. God seems to me to be something which wants us to win. In tennis. Or poetry. Or marriage. I'm like a modern...
Cash from Canada. Early in the 1950s, the Mackles started to woo a new market: persons at or near retirement age. In a market survey, they found that 68% of older Americans were willing to retire in Florida and that their incomes averaged $160 a month. The Mackles felt they could put up a house priced for such a small income, but they lacked the bankroll to swing a nationwide promotion. To get it, they teamed with Canadian Financier Louis Chesler, 45, who had rolled up a fortune by underwriting mining promotions. Chesler has poured in about...
...publication of the Negro crime article [April 21] is a cinch to woo back the Faubus-following racists TIME lost during the Little Rock episode, who, no doubt, will take the article's title and figures literally...
...facilities to bring in the coal to fuel them, to a sugar refinery that closed within two weeks of its opening because no. sugar beets were grown in the area. Even more bitterly, they accused him of using development funds as a bottomless pork barrel with which to woo the peasant vote-a charge at least partly borne out last year when Menderes swept along Turkey's Black Sea coast in a pre-election tour passing out promises of sugar mills, cement factories and port improvements with all the abandon of a new father distributing cigars...
...minimum for a beast with a role). This shift in concern was as telling a portent as any last week when television rounded the bend of its 1957-58 season. It is a season in which network advertisers are spending more than ever-about $660 million a year-to woo the largest audience yet-42 million TV homes-on the theory that, as one CBS bigwig frankly put it. "the best kind of entertainment is what the people want to watch...