Word: lures
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long-barreled gun, then tied up with 30 feet of rope. Probable scene of the crime: one of the countless coastwise vessels with which the harbor swarms. (To shoot Polk first and then drag his bleeding, trussed body through Salonika's streets could hardly have escaped notice; to lure him to a caique, and then shoot him in a below-deck cabin, would have been simpler and safer...
...chief targets were women refugees in his beleagured capital city of Tsinan who were "choosing marriage as their way out." Men with families, he noted, had little fighting spirit. Worst of all, proclaimed the general, "The Reds have been sending girl spies over, utilizing carnal looks to lure military and government officials into matrimony, in order to obtain military information and endanger lives...
...left him weak. Undertrained and undernourished after living on relief, he made a try at a comeback, finally quit because he could make more money ($85 a week) as a wartime shipyard worker. It took a lot of talking by glib Felix Bocchiccio, a small-time Camden promoter, to lure him back into the fight racket. Bocchiccio supplied two vital things he lacked before-management and money-and Jersey Joe began punching his way into the headlines...
With canny Scottish sense, Kennedy has shied from the lure of fancy new equipment. "We could have transferred to bigger, 40-passenger planes," says he, "but it would have increased the operating costs to a point where we'd have been forced to cut down schedules." He thinks the moneymaking trick for short lines is to have plenty of schedules-and keep them...
Such tasty bait as this, Wall Streeters hoped, would sooner or later lure in the public. They had some pious arguments in favor of it: a big bull market, for one thing, would not only fatten brokers' commissions, but would permit industry to raise some of the capital, through stock issues, that it badly needs for expansion. One simple recipe, favored by both Schram and Truslow to attract more investors: cut margins...