Word: endearing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Princeton relay team, anchored by another strong 1:43 leg by Campbell, broke yet another meet record with the time of 6:53.317. but their fans, screaming and yelling childishly all evening, did little to endear their team to the other participants...
...elevated Mississippi riverfront expressway, which would have been an aesthetic catastrophe for the graceful Vieux Carré. They launched a thorough investigation of the project and within two weeks produced a detailed report showing the expressway to be the result of shoddy planning. Their findings did not endear them to the Chamber of Commerce-nor, they were astonished to find, to many of their lifelong friends. They were quietly but firmly pushed out of what they refer to as the "velvet rut." Says Borah: 'If you are born in the right family and keep your mouth shut...
...crowded schedule with press interviews, speaking engagements and visits to Wall Street trading floors. Such visibility is a striking contrast to the low profile maintained by the man he succeeded, Hamer Budge. Casey even matches the ebullience of Budge's predecessor, Manuel Cohen, whose activist zeal did not endear him to many securities...
...added: "His contribution has been to discover consensus politics; or maybe it was the consensus which discovered Jack Lynch." Equally plain-spoken was the London Economist's recent assessment of Lynch as "the best Irish Prime Minister that Britain is likely to get"-a judgment hardly calculated to endear him to an electorate that still regards Britain as the "ould enemy...
...Your report on "Blacks" [April 5] shook me off my feet when it said that the demand that the U.S. take the lead in politically and economically isolating South Africa was "unrealistic." Does economic necessity really endear the South African to Americans? Paradoxically, is it not American financiers who helped revitalize South Africa's post-Sharpeville economy? Or is it that Mr. Nixon's Silent Majority might be alienated? South Africa also has a Silent Majority, which unfortunately happens to be black...