Word: beckon
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When Henry Miller arrived in Paris in 1930, he was immediately impressed by one aspect of the French capital's street life. "Montmartre is simply lousy with whores," he noted on his first Sunday in town. "They sit in the cafés and beckon to you from the window, or bunk smack up against you in the street, and invite you to come along." You're more likely to bump into a tourist in Montmartre today, but Miller would recognize those streetwalkers in other parts of the city. After dark, the ringroad that circles Paris is dotted with very...
Will Hootenanny follow in the footsteps of its parent chain, Newbury Comics, drawing in crowds even after the Halloween fever has passed? The answer will come only with time, but for now Hootenanny remains the only store to beckon those scurrying around campus with the promise of red sweatshirts adorned with devil horns and pleasure overcoats that will keep their wearers warm as they stumble home during the wee hours of the morning...
...It’s good for you,” the proprietor suggested, quoting the legendary advertisements that still beckon people off the streets and into Irish pubs...
...connection with a 1999 shooting at a New York City nightclub and, after a high-profile trial, this Friday was found not guilty on all counts. If he had been found guilty, he could have faced 15 years in prison. Now that he's a free man, the Hamptons beckon...
...friends say O'Connor's health is good, despite hand tremors. She made a hole-in-one while golfing on the weekend after the election decision. She's also hiring clerks for the next two terms. Still, family in Arizona and a house she and her husband built there beckon. As for Rehnquist, a widower, the dean of the University of Arizona law school denies that he's about to come on board. But people who know him think he's restless enough to leave the court if, they say, for example, he becomes romantically involved...