Word: attract
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...There was very little conversation during their one-mile ride to the Capitol. Ike remarked that he had not come to the 1948 inauguration because he did not want to attract attention from the President...
...size and meanness, were starved for three months, just so they could stay awake and snap their jaws with appropriate conviction. How does Bond, who has been placed by Mr. Big on a little island in the middle, escape? He throws them some chicken heads, which were supposed to attract the killers to himself, and while the crocodiles are dining, walks across their backs to shore. Of course...
Still, all the Museums and Women short stories permit the author to comment on fleeting issues which attract him, revealing some of himself to us even at these most casual aesthetic moments. When viewed against more consistent earlier collections like The Music School and Pigeon Feathers, this one doesn't fade. In the complexity of the characters whom he deals with here intensely, and the openness of even his plotted stories to all sorts of notions--political, religious and scientific--which are pertinent to the educated audience he addresses, these new stories are as far from those he wrote...
...support the Committee's proposal for joint Faculty appointments but not as a substitute for strengthening Afro-American Studies so that it can attract distinguished scholars on its own. Joint appointments can be a valuable way of integrating Afro-American Studies with other fields but should not be a device for leaving the Afro-American Studies Department without a faculty...
...more than five minutes to decide whether or not they will consider Gray v. White; even so, it would have received more attention in conference than most petitions that reach the court. About half are never discussed at all, dismissed virtually out of hand because they did not attract the attention of a single Justice who was willing to request that they be discussed in the conference...