Word: attract
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...criticized by Virginians for perpetuating his political dynasty. Young Harry markedly tempered his philosophy, is campaigning as a moderate, modern Democrat. He is considered a slight favorite to win on Nov. 8. And such is the continuing magnetism of the Byrd name that Harry Jr. will undoubtedly attract thousands of votes from Virginians who proudly uphold the memory, if not all the convictions, of Rosemont's old squire...
...sooner had Secretary of State Dean Rusk canceled a November lecture at Cornell University because of "conflicts of schedule" than a Vietnik coed fired off a letter to the Cornell Daily Sun charging that the Secretary was plain afraid of all the antiwar pickets his appearance would attract. Cornell Sophomore Richard Rusk sent the Sun a sonly note of his own. "I can assure you that the reasons for his cancellation are legitimate," wrote Richard. "Being on more intimate terms with Mr. Rusk, I think it is possible that the Secretary might muster up his courage and run the gauntlet...
...petition, which the Committee intends to distribute to students and Faculty members at the College, Law, Business, and Medical Schools, is worded as broadly as possible to attract a wide variety of supporters, said Michael Kazin '70, who heads the campaign...
Leading the pack, of course, was Hastings-which, as its local newspaper proudly pointed out, "is better known internationally than almost any other town." To give the anniversary its deserved importance (and attract 250,000 extra tourists to boot), the Hastings Town Council spent $16,800 building a triple-domed exhibition hall called the Triodome. Principal exhibit of the Triodome was supposed to be the great Bayeux Tapestry, ordered up by the conquering Normans shortly after the battle. But the tapestry is the property of the town of Bayeux in Normandy, which refused to give it up, and so Hastings...
...display a war reporter's proper enthusiasm for lengthy bouts of bloody and dangerous combat. Too many U.S. newsmen, Marshall complains, are like the TV crews who "want blood on the moon every night." They make brief searches for "tangents and sidebars." The offbeat yarns that attract them "fall into several familiar patterns, none of which promises a beat any longer, though collectively they are beaten to death. Any demonstration or riot is surefire copy. Then there is the thing-that-went-wrong story. Hapless civilians have been killed in every war fought by the U.S., but only...