Word: attract
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cunning intent by playing on peoples' fears and hostile emotions to attract to himself mass support. He built his following by feeding hateful attitudes and by unleashing bigotry, for to the frightened and worried the fears he played on were so real that he appeared to them as hero and savior. He advanced his political career by first inciting a mass public opinion...
These critics go about their task in a way hauntingly familiar to an older generation. Their aim is to build a following for themselves. They would do this by sowing doubtsand suspicions. They hope then to attract sufficient support to be able to enforce demands on those whom they malign and designate as the enemy, using the old means of distortion, accusation, guilt imputed by association, and so on. And they thrive as people lend them credence...
...county courts. For the fall elections, however, politicians are rapidly beginning to realize that women constitute an important voting bloc. In New York State, a Women's Liberation spokesman reports, aides of major candidates are calling Women's Lib offices to ask, in effect, what they should say to attract this vote...
Buckley's conservatism and personal appeal may attract many organization Democrats fed up with "permissive liberalism." Buckley and his party, however, still have very far to go. In the 1968 Senate race on the Conservative ticket, he pulled 17% of the vote in New York, where politics for decades has generally been centerleft...
Cicadas, long known to buzz to attract mates, also make loud noises to discourage birds from eating them while they are mating, reports Princeton Psychologist James Simmons. Several thousand cicadas encountered in a tree near Princeton produced a volume of 80 to 100 decibels when measured from 60 feet away-a noise equivalent to a jackhammer or a screeching subway. Such a sound, Simmons says, could damage the eardrums of a curious mammal and pain the sensitive hearing of a cicada-eating bird...