Word: woos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...longer stints around our offices, interrupted only by what Porterfield calls his "apostasy in television" when he left to write and produce TV shows for close friend and college roommate Dick Cavett. Fortunately, when the glamour of TV wore thin, we were able to woo him back -- much to the relief of those who find his skills and dispassion a prerequisite for getting the magazine out each week. "TIME is bloody lucky to have him," says Hughes...
...mistake not even Kollek's legendary charm could reverse. Olmert wisely let the mayor's 82 years speak for themselves: he kept silent on how a conservative Likud government would run the city. While Kollek tried to deflect the inevitable snooze jokes and sought unsuccessfully to woo Palestinians in East Jerusalem, who have traditionally boycotted elections and felt ignored by the mayor, the Likud candidate promised ultra-Orthodox Jews more power and money, and won handily with 59% of the vote...
...trying to woo my editing partner in a conference course I'm taking. We have to exchange papers a lot and give each other suggestions on how to improve the content, the style, the organization, and so forth. Here's an excerpt from my latest effort, which I'm supposed to show to my partner early next week...
...bring students into politics and woo student voters, Reeves has made several appearances at Harvard before various student groups, Buery says...
...pretext that holds the collection of memories together is a party, shortly following the death of one of the mothers, Suyuan Woo (Kieu Chinh). The seven surviving women and their families gather to celebrate the departure of Suyuan's daughter, June (Ming-Na Wen), for China, where she will seek out two long-lost sisters, previously thought to be dead. In "The Joy Luck Club," the daughters must look back to and acknowledge their mothers' experiences in China in order to sort out their own lives. June's impending journey is physical enactment of this...