Word: woos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...finest-quality ceramic tile are involved in a fierce fight to win a bigger part of this growing market. The battle was evident last week at the opening of the New York World's Fair, where dozens of building-materials makers have set up displays to woo the public, from a house of Formica inside and out to one that is practically all glass...
...even calls him a fool. But Barrett upsets her mastery, undermines her confidence; he irritates because he knows more about wines and paintings, he interrupts a tete a tete, mains a jambes in Tony's study, and his seductive offers of stability and the seductress whom he offers woo Tony away from her. Tony is unimportant, but her pride is up; she must defeat Barrett by getting him back...
...France's Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville pleaded Spain's cause logically and eloquently. Spanish diplomats had tried using the engagement of Spain's Prince Carlos and The Netherlands' Princess Irene, as well as the Spanish birth of Belgium's Queen Fabiola, to woo the Low Countries. Nothing could shake the bitter Socialist Francophobes of Belgium and Italy. "The Belgian government can never accept this Spain," snapped Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak, though he did not exclude bilateral trade agreements with Common Market nations. Italy's Ambassador Antonio Venturini made it plain that...
...little chance of beating De Gaulle, now or in 1965. He is, after all, a virtual unknown. The most recent public opinion poll shows le grand Charles leading 61% to 38%, which Defferre finds not too discouraging. Campaigning hard in Paris and Bordeaux last week, Defferre was refusing to woo the Communists because, as he put it, "I couldn't sleep at night." To the Communist threat that they may run their own candidate, Defferre replies that this would simply play into the hands of the Gaullists and as sure the election of De Gaulle or his designated heir...
...Rugantino is musically underprivileged, except for a couple of lilting serenades, Ciumachella and Roma. By U.S. standards, the dance numbers are unsophisticated, but one carnival scene with masks and harle quins manages to echo commedia dell'arte. Rugantino's appeal is that it is smilingly content to woo an audience rather than...