Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stayed behind. Meanwhile, back at the camps, there is widespread discontent in the long communal barracks which house the families. The peasants will not be compensated for their destroyed homes until they "demonstrate loyalty" to the government. And in the countryside the guerillas continue to attract support by their successes...
There are exceptions even to these rules, however: Arkansas' most prominent millionaire, Winthrop Rockefeller, is of course a Baptist, and he has been unrelenting in his efforts to liberalize the state's policies and image, in order to attract industry. Likewise, the Jewish community in the east (in Hot Springs, for example, whose gambling industry is largely Jewish-run), is far to the right: such prominent families as the Levys out-Walker General Walker (they are the source of his mysterious income...
Rockefeller's control of the Republican party is absolute. Originally an independent, anxious only to attract industry to Arkansas, he has thrown his lot in with Arkansas’s small, but growing party. His position of power is still used in the service of his ideas about Arkansas' economic needs...
...tourists ever stray very far south of the California border into the long, desertlike Mexican peninsula called Baja California. Below Tijuana, where the Mexican fleshpots generally attract only servicemen, there is scarcely anything to see save for a scattering of native villages and trails. And yet, along the southernmost 100 miles of Baja, between La Paz and Cabo San Lucas (see map), is the best game-fishing ground in the hemisphere-perhaps, as some fishermen claim, in the whole world...
Just as three heart attacks have scarcely slowed him, success has scarcely spoiled him. His plain and simple sermons attract crowds to the temple from all over northeastern Ohio. "They tell me they just like to come to hear the old man go," says Billington...