Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wife Ethel often said, "I think he's brilliant," but his assets lay more in a sharp intelligence, a fierce energy, and an ability to give and attract devotion and to surround himself with brilliance. Almost from the day of his brother's inauguration, Hickory Hill, the historic estate in Virginia that once belonged to President John, became an institution that the capital will sorely miss...
...desert of opposition into full participation in government. A onetime Communist who broke with his Red masters during World War II, Wehner perceived in the 1950s that the Social Democrats' Marxist shibboleths and anti-everything attitude left them locked in what he called the "30% ghetto," unable to attract a wider following among West German voters. With characteristic iron will power, he set about remolding his party into one that would appeal to all Germans...
...pursues him through most of the movie, doing calculatedly kooky things to attract his attention, such as smashing a store window to steal an enormous tuba which she totes around, and breaking a rib so that he can prescribe bed rest-in his bed. While Julie does her sleekly sexy best with Petulia, Scott never once loses his look of peevish disgruntlement, possibly because he doesn't even get the girl...
This alarming view of the erosion of Harvard's eminence introduces the Committee's specialized suggestions on what the University must do to attract and retain outstanding Faculty: enter the market for scholars with a bit more managerial shrewdness...
...NUMBER of influences on Harvard's attractiveness are not treated at all. The most disappointing omission (at least to students) is the lack of any detailed treatment of undergraduate or graduate teaching. Though the report concedes that Harvard's "capacity to attract students of high quality," is crucial to attracting faculty, it goes no further. It does not consider how the attractiveness of Harvard to Faculty might change if standards of recruitment altered--specifically if more emphasis were placed on getting men eager and able to teach...