Word: endearing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...basically a matter of confidence, and at Harvard, where authority is so diffuse, confidence is doubly required. There is a conflict here, though, for the prime minister of any such organization must be policitically adept and ruthless if he is to meet today's problem effectively, traits which endear one to nobody. A Provost must somehow secure confidence while playing politics, a feat which Mr. Buck accomplished with astonishing success...
This was likely to endear Lodge more to his fellow citizens than to fellow U.N. diplomats, who regard handshakes between antagonists, however bloody, as good form. Lodge made a better impression on the diplomats next day, when in his maiden speech he pinned responsibility for continuing the war where it belongs...
Last year, the Green eleven previewed some of the rough stuff that was to endear them to Princeton fans later in the season and the CRIMSON published an extra with an objective report on the game--nothing more, nothing less...
From Paris, word leaked out that onetime Wonder Boy Orson Welles, 35, was working on a new play called The Unthinking Lobster. It would be a take-off on movie people with all the characters easily recognizable, according to Variety, and "likely not to endear Welles with Hollywood...
...party machinery and patronage, finally put old Joe Grundy out in the anteroom. And as one minor effect, Duff's victory did no good for the 1952 presidential hopes of Harold Stassen. Stassen campaigned for Cooke, his 1948 Pennsylvania campaign manager, and that was not likely to endear him to Jim Duff's 73-member Pennsylvania delegation in the 1952 G.O.P. convention...