Word: lure
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have been unwilling to carry out their promise because the Arabs threatened their security and oil in the Middle East. Commissions returned from Palestine with trumped-up findings which "proved" that Palestine could not absorb further immigration while Arabs were pouring into Palestine from the East, attracted by the lure of high Jewish wages. Arab-Jewish friction was played up and further immigration was halted. Then War came, and the question was shelved...
...analyzed the lure. It ought to be sex, but one visit makes that doubtful. Whatever it is, Harvard-men meet with Boston on common ground at the Old Howard--leer almost as luridly at the flesh as do the natives, shudder with them at the chorus, and blush a slightly darker shade of pink at the comedians...
...universities partly explained the shift from previous world centers-Germany, France and England. So, too, did the fact that for war-weary European youths the U.S. looked like the best place to get away from it all. But U.S. technological strides, especially in engineering and medicine, were the biggest lure...
ICCASP had proved its ability to pull crowds into huge New York and Los Angeles rallies, to lure money-heavy political angels into glittering banquet rooms. A bright, diminutive 35-year-old ex-newspaperwoman named Hannah Dorner, who affectionately calls ICCASP members "glamor pusses," handled most of its promotion stunts with a hardheaded competency in Manhattan's Astor Hotel, overlooking Broadway. Nevertheless, the committee could still be expected to cut didoes...
...wooded south shore of Ontario's Mackeith Lake swarmed with prospectors, mining engineers, drillers, bulldozer drivers, government geologists, get-rich-quick investors. The lure: gold. Ontario has had many a gold strike, big & little, and this latest, made by a lucky prospector in his fifties named Burke, looked as if it might...