Word: lure
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...solar system passes through the central plane, it may collide with one of the massive dust clouds. While the cloud itself would have little graviational effect on the earth or the sun, its gravitational pull would. The strong lure would perturb the Oort cloud--a vast spherical shell of trillions of icy particles which surround the solar system...
...advertisement made Valerie stop and think. "I had very easy pregnancies," she says, "and I didn't think it would be a problem for me to carry another child. I figured maybe I could help someone." And then there was the lure of the $10,000 fee. "The money could help pay for my children's education," she says, "or just generally to make their lives better...
...John Frederick Lewis, kept the crowds coming to the shows organized by the Academic des Beaux-Arts in Paris and the Royal Academy in London. By the turn of the 20th century a host of French and English artists, and a few venturesome Americans, had been drawn by the lure of "the Orient": a term that then denoted not the Far East but the Middle East and North Africa...
...over the world. It goes something like this: Give the masses a new religious symbol to believe in ("harness the madman power") and then exploit their zeal to create wealth, in this case by mining gold in a remote area of Argentina. The Astrologer explains: "See? We'll lure the workers in with false promises and whip them to death if they won't work." Erdosain feels flattered to be included among the brains of this organization. His invention of a copper-plated rose, once perfected and put into production, will provide capital for the fledgling revolution...
...done the most unutterable rubbish, all because of money," he confessed a few years ago. "I didn't need "it. I've never needed money, not even as a child, though I came from a very poor family. But there have been times when the lure of the zeros was simply too great." It may have been those seductive zeros that reunited him with Taylor last year in a national tour of Noël Coward's Private Lives; each reportedly was paid $70,000 a week. Grotesquely miscast, Liz and Dick endured perhaps their ultimate humiliation...