Word: lures
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...similar trickery, beemen can lure their bees to almost any flower. Red clover, for instance, is not particularly attractive. But if a few bees are fed syrup from a small dish resting on a pile of red clover blossoms, their dances and scent incite other bees to pollenate red clover, increasing its crop of seed...
Parrying with easy answers another series of questions designed to lure him into his self-constructed trap of "partisan politics," Stassen talked around the issue of economic planning in this country. Finally he allowed that "I am in favor of an overall economic policy which the whole country would support...
...cigar-fogged suite in Washington's Shoreham Hotel, negotiators for the nation's soft-coal operators drooped dejectedly. For a weary month they had failed to lure labor's one-man theater into writ-fag a new contract for his United Mine Workers. Now the nation was living on stored coal. And now, because his only specific demand (for a miners' health & welfare fund) had been turned down, Lewis was about to halt even the pretense of negotiation. Balefully he intoned...
...college voted to move from Wake Forest (pop. 1,800), in the eastern part of the state, to Winston-Salem, the Camel capital. The lure: a free campus-probably "Reynolda," the 300-acre estate of Tobacco Heir (and Presbyterian) Zachary Smith Reynolds*-and $350,000 annual income. The college will keep its name and Baptist independence. The catch: North Carolina Baptists must raise $4 million to pay for the new buildings in Winston-Salem. Last week Wake Forest's Board of Trustees and the Baptist General Board voted that it could be done-and talked enthusiastically of a campus...
...matter of imposing the will of the President on the so-called "intellectual freedom" of the University, but more an application of what may be an outstanding educational philosophy to the dilemmas of the current crisis. It is generally acknowledged that only departure from orthodoxy will lure to Harvard the intellectual wealth that is being attracted elsewhere. Equally great is the need for a strong hand to prevent the College from veering off on tangents that may lead to even greater difficulties...