Word: lures
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Undoubtedly the Nacionalistas will try to lure Macapagal into their party. But Macapagal, convinced that the country must develop a two-party system based on principles and not mere personalities, rebuffed his friend Magsaysay's own efforts to sway him through four years, and stuck with the Liberals in defeat, fighting its corrupt elements from within...
...INDUSTRY LURE is being pioneered by Maine and watched closely by other states. Bucking tight-money pinch, Maine legislature passed law to have state insure up to 90% of loans made for construction of new factories. Loans will be made to nonprofit corporations set up by Maine communities to hold title to a plant, lease it back to the new industry...
Dogpatch is planning to invade Harvard and carry off 13 of Cambridge's "pure, shy young bachelors." The Trojan horse which will lure the Harvard men from their academic retreats is Moonbeam McSwine, an earthy young lady of astounding physical proportions...
...aftermath of dissension, there seemed little remaining hope that the Social Democrats could ever lure Italy's left-wing voters from the Communist-tainted banner of Pietro Nenni. As for unification, Nenni made clear he no longer considered the Social Democrats in any position to demand concessions from...
...until the early '30s did Detroit's automakers realize the potential of launching new-looking models (but not too new) every year to lure more customers. Under G.M. President Alfred P. Sloan, Harley Earl set up the first full-fledged styling section, and in the process gave G.M. the style lead for more than 20 years. Earl pioneered the rounded body for mass-production cars, slanted windshields, fenders that projected over the doors, the hardtop convertible. Despite G.M.'s success others were slow to follow. Even as late as 1948, Chrysler President K. T. Keller hotly defended...