Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Quad House committee members find mixers at the Quad are not good fundraisers. "We tried a mixer two years ago, but we couldn't attract enough people to the Quad," Joseph Z. Michael '78, acting vice president of the North House committee said yesterday. "Maybe the image is changing now, but until this year a mixer was not even seriously considered...
...missionaries used ploys similar to highschool bake sales to attract audiences. Petersen -- whose mission took him to Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and the Honduras--organized Bible study groups, cleanup campaigns, and bike-fixing clinics...
...style again is almost certain to be more impressive than substance. If Carter comes across as a believable man, capable and fair, he will undoubtedly attract that controlling group of voters who are eager for a change. But if he shows poorly, is seen as calculating or waffling or brittle, his Everyman could turn into No Man, the candidate who reached for so many constituencies that he wound up with none...
...Civilized. Concord's races attract a diverse crowd that includes one-gallus retirees, peroxide mountain mamas and lonely textile workers from the nearby Cannon Mills. A crude spectator pecking order exists among fans. Families that applaud Chevrolets won't socialize with friends of the Dodge boys. Mechanic Howard Sussman buys a $4 ticket just to see the power slides. Says he: "My wife can't understand how I can fix cars all week and then spend the weekend watching them race...
Lane says that among his group's efforts now is an initiative to attract more fast food restaurants to the already-glutted Square ("What the hell!!") and to cover Central's Shawmut Bank branch--which he says Rothman's money controls--with human excrement...