Word: attraction
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much as the steamship companies would like to attract young, fun-loving customers, they must depend mostly on people who can afford to be away from home for an extended trip. A good proportion of cruise travelers are older, monied people, many of them divorcees and widows. To a few frustrated romantics, the cruise ships still hold something of the promise (seldom fulfilled) of the fabled Slow Boat to China. Women seem to like cruises because they can count on good food and plumbing aboard ship, are spared the hazards of finding their way alone through strange cities and into...
...graduate of 1937, and other Reunion officials still expressed hope yesterday for a compromise whereby "we could use the Band and make it worthwhile for them too." But Band manager Edward A. Alpers '63 pointed out that without a sufficient range of activities the Band could not attract enough members "to put on decent concerts...
That singular quality of certain films to attract violent criticism and equally strong support, is not a mark of greatness; it is, rather, an indication that technical or stylistic innovations have been strikingly exploited, or that an extreme statement has been made. Citizen Kane and L'Avventura, a classic and a mediocre trump-up, fall into the first category. Chaplin's Monsieur Verdoux and Stanley Kramer's new work fall into the latter...
...exemptions and political peace. Marking off 2,000 acres of bushland near the Caracas superhighway in 1959, the council first swung a $300,000 deal with Ford Motor Co., which took 104 acres for a new assembly plant. The council used the money plus its own funds to attract more industry by providing electric power, opening streets, digging drainage ditches. It also took pains to see that foreigners were well treated. When Venezuela broke relations with Castro's Cuba last November, the council organized a civilian patrol that, just in case of reprisals by Fidelistas, kept a protective watch...
...does it with grace. Her husband is related to the famed Guinness brewing clan and is a multimillionaire (banking, airplanes, etc.). They scorn café society's more redolent haunts; they are just rich people who maintain a bejeweled private life, do nothing deliberately to attract publicity...