Word: woos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...states where Brown is on the ballot-Maryland, Kentucky, Nevada, New Jersey-while building a skeletal national organization from such bones as Cesar Chavez's far-flung boycott network and activist church groups. Brown is considering a nationwide tour, the better to disseminate his "lower our expectations" dicta, woo uncommitted delegates and influence the polls during the pregnant preconvention lull...
...result of a strategy of Prime Minister Olof Palme's Social Democratic Party to build popularity in an election year. The Social Democrats only barely prevailed in the 1973 elections, and Palme faces another severe test at the polls in September. In a cunning bid to woo the country's 3 million blue-and white-collar wage earners Palme decided to make companies and self-employed citizens shoulder the soaring cost of Sweden's cradle-to-grave social programs. At the same time, wage earners were allowed to stop contributing to health insurance and pension plans...
...moving rendition of "Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord" and Kathy Evans' portrayal of an adulteress rescued by Jesus who expresses her gratitude in "By My Side." Stephen Hayes as Jesus has a melodic high tenor which makes up in sweetness what it lacks in strength, while Patty Woo sings the show's best-known number, "Day by Day," in a clear contralto...
Whoever directs, Peter Hall will rule. He may command through persuasive fluency and crisp decision, but he must also woo the paying customers and the satraps of subsidy. At least 80% of the 2,450 seats must be filled or the prevailing ratio of $2 in government subsidy for every $2 in theater receipts will go perilously awry. There has been quite audible grumbling about the $30 million that has already gone into what one sour critic has labeled "the concrete Xanadu on the South Bank." Hall has astutely muted such criticism by occupying the premises, and the government...
...Harper's magazine, which its editors delicately titled "Jimmy Carter's Pathetic Lies." The 6,000-word story reviews many of the charges that Carter has already rebutted (TIME, Feb. 2). They include the implication that he courted segregationists during his 1970 gubernatorial campaign (he did woo the "redneck" vote, but early in the campaign he also guaranteed "equal treatment to all of our people"); that he supported Lester Maddox for Lieutenant Governor in 1970 and George Wallace for Vice President in 1972 (Maddox complained that Carter actually "worked almost as hard against [me] as he did against...