Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...make proper allowance for men sometimes seized by jungle neurosis who begin wielding their machetes wildly or tossing grenades promiscuously across the area. In the tenseness of the long jungle nights, every sound and circumstance takes on the aspect of terror. Exhausted soldiers are forbidden to snore lest they attract the attention of snipers. But the night is full of sound. The call of a dry-throated tree frog becomes the signaling of infiltrating Japs. Pebbles falling from the edge of the foxhole on your helmet may be thrown by Japanese trying to taunt you into showing a silhouette. Such...
...biggest reason why Jim Adams wants to get his stock out of the cat-&-dog area is because he figures that it will thereby become a more useful vehicle for expansion. Low-priced stocks usually attract small-time speculators who figure they get more when they buy 100 shares at $5 than 10 shares at $50; when a businessman sells out his company for another company's stock, he looks for blue-chip prestige. Thus when Standard bought the Loudon Packing Co. (V8 Vegetable Juice) last March, the Loudons insisted on cash, but when General Foods bought out Snider...
Bearded British Philosopher Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad, plumber for polygamy, last week recommended four additional postwar freedoms: free gambling, freer drinking, cafe terraces and Sunday shows. To attract tourists to the Isles, he suggested that Britons "stop treating foreigners as monsters of immorality and freaks of eccentricity. . . . Also we should learn to cook...
...have offered them a helping hand. On the contrary, politicians have taken over many private banking functions, with results in some cases that still await a critical examination. Some bankers have presumably become wiser for their bitter experiences, but they lack the opportunity to prove their wisdom and to attract new, able personnel. The public can well afford to insist that in the world economy bankers and the profit motive be given a chance to perform as they performed in the most thriving period of the world's history...
Long a feature of Maytime evenings, the concerts regularly attract hordes of seersucker-clad college students who just don't feel like studying, in addition to a large number of Radcliffe girls who feel similar urges...