Word: endearing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...York Times. He had a previous offer from the Washington Post Co., but Publisher Arthur Sulzberger met him at a dinner in New York and made a higher bid-reportedly $50,000. That sizable salary, and his early columns defending Nixon against Watergate charges, did not endear Safire to many Times colleagues. But readers found him a lively contrast to the paper's other, mostly liberal and often solemn political columnists-Anthony Lewis, James Reston and Tom Wicker. Safire's column is sent to about 450 papers that subscribe to the New York Times News Service...
...majors, Carew was moody, a loner who made friends slowly and suffered slights poorly. In 1970 a runner crashed into him while trying to break up a double play. Carew underwent surgery for a torn knee cartilage and, thereafter, was gun-shy on the pivot. This did not endear him to Manager Bill Rigney, nor Rigney to Carew. In a rare admission for an athlete, Carew acknowledged his fear and tried to conquer his anxiety on the field. Rigney's public questioning of his courage did not help...
...naive twenty-year-old enraptured by Princess Leia's beauty who seeks to avenge the death of his father during the space age totalitarians overthrow of the republic. Luke is an irresistible figure, the country bumpkin with just the right touch of idealism and star-struck awe to endear him to any audience. He saves the day of course, hitting the heavily protected weak link in the planet-fortress of the Empire that reduces the forces of evil to a pyrotechnic starburst signalling the end of the dark days in the universe. While the dogfight that leads into the last...
...decided it was time to speak and make himself noticed, he always blurted out some inane remark that set women on edge. His high-strung nature made him good at whipping through economics problem sets, but his inability to have a simple good time with people did not endear him to many. His laughter was forced and his jumpiness scared people off. He was especially self-concious around women, so he was even more jumpy around them, and they gave him an extra wide berth...
Racial stereotypes, whether statistical or humorous, have long rankled black students, and when the Harvard Lampoon published a magazine cover last spring featuring a black shining the shoes of John Harvard's statue, it did not exactly endear the magazine to the University's black community...