Word: attract
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...American system at work. This gives a message to students, the alienated, the intellectuals and the liberals across the country." The ballot count was also a message to his Republican opponent, Incumbent Fletcher Thompson. In the primary runoff, Young's appeal was broad enough to attract as many votes as Thompson, an archconservative, polled when he won the seat...
...response when I inquired whether his endorsement might be converted to promotional purposes. I no longer pretend that Styron's blow was not the more painful. Still, I thought enough of both as artists and men (and owed them enough for their old inspirations) that I was eager to attract them to Harvard. I labored long to assure that all would go well for them in Cambridge. Sadly, neither enjoyed their best experiences...
...appealing to just a hungry person," Feltman says, but five pinball machines and two other games called "Missile" and "Motorcycle" help to attract customers. In a couple of weeks he plans to start a delivery service...
...have had to adjust rather fast, for it is not games you have been playing here during these years but rather the real thing. Yet amidst the upsetting alarums and excursions occasioned during your years in college by a determined few who have worked consistently to attract attention to themselves by misrepresenting what we are about, as you have gone ahead with your work, you have made clear one hopeful sign. That is, your generation's vigorous assertion that you will not be satisfied with a learning or a way of life whose most convincing credentials are only that they...
...might be at least bemused by some of the suggestions being considered. Among them: cheering sections at nationally televised football games, with cards spelling out JOIN VISTA; streamers towed by airplanes over "every major beach in America" on Labor Day and Memorial Day, along with skydivers and skywriters to attract the press; VISTA swizzle sticks aboard airliners; a pavilion at Disneyland; and a national advisory board made up of such figures as Paul Newman, Elliott Gould, O.J. Simpson, Billy Graham, Mae West and Lawrence Welk...