Word: attract
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bunkers, ducking incoming fire, and cleaning and recleaning the M-16 rifles they expect to use against the NVA's 304th and 325-C Divisions. "Mortar bait!" they scream as big transports lumber onto the metal runway. Then they dart into bunkers, knowing that the planes usually attract "incoming." The Marines just sit and wait to be attacked, primarily because seeking out the enemy could cost more lives and casualty-consciousness has been drummed into every commander. The fact that they do not patrol means that Khe Sanh's original purpose-to interdict enemy infiltration-has been abandoned...
Helped along by the country's desperate food shortages, a stagnant economy and growing unrest, the Jana Sangh sharply attacked Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's socialist-minded Congress Party. It demanded better economic planning, free enterprise to attract foreign investment, a harder line against Pakistan and China, and the development of a nuclear bomb for India. Growing steadily, it won control of the city of Delhi and domination of the opposition coalitions in the two key states of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh. In last year's national parliamentary elections, the Jana Sangh rolled up 14 million...
Along with a considerable amount of overdoing, there are a great many misconceptions. A common one involves the benefits of popular sports and games, such as swimming, tennis and golf, which attract the weekend athlete. They are good exercise, but they are generally practiced in such an irregular and undisciplined way as to be of doubtful value. Says Manhattan's Dr. Hans Kraus, physical therapist, author (Backache, Stress and Tension), part-time mountain climber and the man who eased Pesident Kennedy's aching back: "I'm very much for golf as a game...
...majority of people who come in here are high school kids," he commented, although folk and blues shows attract more college students--not from Harvard, but from all around Boston, Newton, and Cambridge...
...interview is the heart of every Island, the editors use it to attract readers whom they then expose to a selection of good verse...