Word: lure
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from the Roman Catholic Church for expelling a pair of prelates from 90% Catholic Argentina. During the uprising Peronistas burned nine Catholic churches. Most churchmen still denounce Peron, but last week Monsignor Antonio Jose Plaza, 49-year-old archbishop of the industrial city of La Plata, was trying to lure the 2,000,000 Peronistas still left into a proclerical political party...
...Admirals Shoï Nishimura and Kiyohide Shima, were to come through Surigao Strait, move north and close the pincers with Kurita. Meanwhile, a fleet under canny old Vice Admiral Jisaburo Ozawa, with carriers for bait, was charged with decoy duty to "advance into Philippine Sea east of Luzon" and "lure the enemy to the north...
More than half the money ($11.2 million) is earmarked for improving faculties at eight of the schools; it will pay for raising key professors to senior rank, financing faculty loans and summer fellowships, will set up 15 new professorships and help lure top engineers into teaching. The rest of the money goes into improving curriculums, notably for new programs (at Case, U.C.L.A.) that concentrate on design as a basic engineering discipline. Biggest beneficiary: M.I.T. ($9,275,000), now developing a curriculum focused on science-core courses that cut across traditional departmental lines. Ford thus hopes, explained Foundation President Henry...
Since that time, the West Coast has spawned the Kingston Trio and other so-called "folk groups," Oberlin College gave birth to a prospering folk song and dance act, and Boston has fallen prey to the indisputable economic lure posed by B.U. and Brandeis folkniks. This week two old troopers, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGee, initiated the Golden Vanity, an unconventional coffee-house...
...black version of the same incendiary invitation, were pictures of the principals involved: the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, a bachelor and a pudgy 64, and four-times-wed Post Publisher Dorothy Scruff, a slim 56. But anyone who swallowed the Post's heavily scented lure last week in the hope of finding a spicy journalistic feast was doomed to disappointment. The flavor was all in the hook...