Word: attract
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...worked right through the day into evening sessions. The son always took Ben a sack of food at night, and then stuck around to watch the trials. In those days the court's criminal trials were the region's chief entertainment; the more notorious cases used to attract hundreds of people from miles around. Local churches sold box lunches, and there was usually a medicine show set up near the courthouse...
...Gingold ruling was eventually declared unlawful by the courts, but the case continued to attract attention. Outside the Federal Republic, there were accusations of neofascism and worries about a new generation of "ugly Germans." In Paris, Sorbonne Political Scientist Alfred Grosser, a moderate leftist, deplored West Germany's "atmosphere of intolerance, surveillance, snooping and denunciation." A Swedish television report blasted the "socalled radicals' decree and its implications." French Socialist Leader François Mitterrand even set up a Committee for the Defense of Civic and Professional Rights in West Germany...
...British still differ with the U.S. over what happened in 1776. But after 200 years, they are prepared to be good losers. One notable sign: the lavish pictorial exhibit celebrating their defeat that is currently on display at Greenwich's National Maritime Museum, where it is expected to attract more than 1 million visitors. Two years in the making, "1776, the British Story of the American Revolution" traces events from just before the Stamp Act was imposed, in 1764, to George Ill's gracious acceptance of credentials from John Adams, the fledgling nation's first minister...
...huge glass-roofed court, is powerful architecture, the dynamic element in Houston's silhouette. The looks also guarantee a good return on Developer Gerald Hines' $45 million investment in the building. He asked Architects Philip Johnson and John Burgee for a striking design, confident that it would attract tenants who wanted to be associated with a noble building. Hines knew his market; Pennzoil Place is booked solid...
...copies now find a market for 200,000 or more. There is scarcely a major college campus that does not offer a jazz course or harbor student combos. The Newport and Monterey jazz festivals have become the Bayreuth and Glyndebourne of jazz in the U.S.?and attract knowledgeable, sophisticated crowds...