Word: attract
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cartmell is a member of a Yale secret society. Election to a secret society isn't considered to be the ultimate reward for the most meritorious members of the senior call any more, but they still do attract some of Yale's BMOCs. Bob Purschel, the captain of the Yale football team, and All-American halfback Dick Jouron are in Cartmell's society. Woll's Head...
...definition of getting old. To Brigitte Bardot, now a hardly senescent 38, it will be "the day I can no longer have the man I'd like." The Vogue magazine interviewer seemed a little shocked. What was Brigitte looking for in a man? "That he attract me physically." What about intellect and all that? "It is difficult for me to get interested in subsidiary qualities." Tenderness? "Tenderness is a concentration of all the habits and all the monotonies, to be avoided with care." After describing herself as "the most important sex symbol of all time," Brigitte observed: "Time will...
...sonar suddenly indicated that something was lurking near by in some 45 ft. of water. After a time, whatever was there disappeared, only to reappear a few minutes later and then vanish again. Rines had his men play a strong spotlight on the waters, a common trick used to attract fish. To Rines' delight, the light apparently had an effect on whatever was in the loch; the sonar resumed its odd tracings. The evidence, which was examined by experts in sonar at M.I.T., Raytheon Co. and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, tended to back Rines' own theory: that...
...long been known that certain materials become electrified when they are rubbed together. That is, they lose or gain enough electrons to acquire a charge of static electricity. In this state, the materials will attract dust, hair and other lightweight fluff that happen to have an opposite charge. Now a British researcher has proposed that this phenomenon be used for a practical purpose: to help track down criminals...
...World War II, the British House of Commons engaged in a heated debate over the banning of darts in Scottish pubs. Darting not only fostered "ne'er-do-wellism," a Scottish magistrate had ruled, but it was "a dangerous game, likely to attract some people who are not too steady in hand." Bloody nonsense, said Home Secretary Samuel Hoare, and the Commons supported him. If nothing else, he said, the game was socially commendable as "a distraction from the mere business of drinking." Sir Samuel's decree: Darts away...