Word: attract
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Domitilla, St. Callistus, St. Sebastian-these are among the early Christians whose shrines attract thousands of pilgrims to the catacombs underneath Rome. The 1929 Concordat that established Vatican rule over these ancient burial grounds also gave the Roman Catholic Church control of two other catacombs in which it had little interest. These, several centuries older than the Christian sites, contained the graves of more than 100,000 of the Jews who had migrated to the ancient capital after the 1st century B.C. And so the crypts were sealed off and left in darkness...
Turgenev began his career as a narrative poet. He was later to describe his verse as "dirty tepid water." But it served to attract influential critics, and propelled him to local prominence. Like many in his privileged caste, Ivan furthered his education in Western Europe. On the Continent, the perpetual bachelor commenced the affair that was to last a lifetime. Heinrich Heine provides the best description of Prima Donna Pauline Viardot: "Her ugliness is of a kind that is noble and, if I might almost say beautiful, such as sometimes enchanted and inspired the great lion-painter Delacroix...
WITH INCREASING FREQUENCY, private colleges are turning to scholarships based on academic merit as a way to attract high-quality applicants who might otherwise go either to more prestigious schools or to state universities. Caught by increasing tuition costs, unendowed schools seem to be finding they must ignore financial need in distributing scholarship money if they are to continue to create highcaliber students...
...League schools have been fortunate in that they have not had to turn to merit-based scholarships to attract top-quality students--their prestige has worked as an adequate incentive. None of them has openly considered ending the long-standing agreement under which none of them offer substantial amounts of aid based on merit rather than on financial need, because so far they have not had to in order to compete with other schools...
Then why does the Mafia attract so much attention? Many Italian Americans complain that the notoriety is excessive, and damaging to millions of law-abiding citizens; to assuage their sensibilities, the Justice Department has stopped referring to the Mafia by name. No matter what the organization is called, it dominates much of American crime. Many nonmember gangsters are allied to it, usually kicking back a share of their take to the dons; some criminologists estimate that at least 50,000 hoods can be considered confederates of the Mafia. The Mafia is by far the best organized criminal group...