Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when the sky is clear, they keep well above New York's highest buildings. But a low ceiling of turbulent clouds often forces them down to levels where they may tangle fatally with glass and brick and steel. Powerful lights on the tops of buildings seem to attract and confuse the birds. Sometimes the sidewalks around the Empire State have been littered with dead migrants...
Disappointing Start. This reversal, plus the fact that Eisenhower Republicanism is already firmly established in the middle of the campaign road, has thrust upon Adlai Stevenson the unaccustomed role of aggressor. In his search for issues to attract the independent vote-which holds the important balance of power that it held in 1952-Stevenson in his pre-campaign campaigning has ranged far, wide, and sometimes erratically. In speeches that have become increasingly strident, he has come out on the one hand for sounder money and on the other hand for lower taxes and bigger federal expenditures. He has been...
...border states, Adlai won 18 districts, and the House candidates took 30. The ratio in ten Southern states was 59 to 92. To Jim Finnegan's close-calculating mind, the 1956 answer was obvious: Stevenson must associate his campaign more closely with those of the state candidates and attract voters to himself through their local popularity...
...lively of expression, some of them bucktoothed and "prancing" of gait. Although they were married and active sexually, they secretly dreaded the sex act and remained "psychically virgins." They had a "miniminy mouth"; that is, they were " 'mim,' prim, reticent, shy, affected." They tended to be frigid, attract weak, boyish men, hated kissing on the mouth (a witch's kiss was believed to draw out the soul). Often they had affairs, mainly with married men. They hated and hurt men, yet believed they were of loving disposition; they were charming, and yet tortured...
...Some of them are particularly ardent dancers and even become professional dancers, despite or perhaps owing to their frigidity. Others are sculptors, potters, nurses or thieves. If they are not doctors or dentists themselves, they 'happen' to attract their dentist, whose advances then fill them with horror. Some have an affair with a spy or have in some way been associated with espionage...