Word: beckon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hands beckon each dawn to the vulture and the hawk bound as I am to the rock that suffering has made mine. I see the trees breathing the black serenity of the dead and then the smiles-that don't develop-of the statues...
...like the war in Vietnam: the bandwagon just doesn't sell. Statements like those of Farnsworth and Prout do nothing but stroke the sentiments of the elderly and further alienate the young. There are some very good reasons why college students should avoid the drug scenes that so seductively beckon, but the authors of this report haven't managed to touch on one of them. A remarkable achievement. Bruce Jackson Junior Fellow
...cannot help believing that the real problems of moral education, and the opportunities that beckon to meet them, are trivialized and evaded [by the proposed amendment...
...chart reading should pall and travel beckon, the U.S. Travel Service has advice about how best to go far, fast and inexpensively. While the Government has not yet taken a hand in promoting the citizen's social life, the Travel Service will arrange for visitors from abroad to stay in the home of almost any American who wants foreign company...
...woman turns topsy below inverted roofs. Perspective is abandoned to a personal scale that adjusts the size of images to their importance. So a huge cow and a man nuzzle, centering on a vortex of color that abolishes depth. Like the flat saints of old Russian icons, his images beckon contemplation, summoning memories from the mind. It is the scenery of a child building dreams in a darkened bedroom...