Word: lures
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...arrange for him "to shoot a moose in Canada." Though having no reason to doubt the Maharajah's aim. the diplomats carefully replied that they would try to arrange for him to shoot "at" a moose. Last week five Canadian provinces and the Yukon territory were trying to lure the big-spending Maharajah to their respective hunting grounds. Of these, the Yukon issued a most sporting challenge to him to get there next month. Boasted a Yukon game official: "As the rutting season generally starts about the loth of September, the bull moose will at that time be just...
...Russians were turned down by the first 13 U.S. printers they tried to lure, finally got the State Department to swing a deal with Manhattan's small Hemisphere Press. Even then there were snags. The Russians balked at the standard U.S. "Act of God" contract clause absolving printers in case of natural catastrophes, such as floods and earthquakes. Snapped a Red editor: "Put in anything you want -earthquakes, fires, even the atom bomb. But leave God out of it." Later, when TV camera crews descended on Hemisphere Press for news program shots, a Red editor groaned: "This competition thing...
...hair all over his body and a long white beard, and claws instead of fingers." The mothers' hearts froze. For this, they knew at once, was Tikoloshe-the evil sprite who tempts South African black men to murder and worse (TIME, Feb. 20), who has the power to lure children away with tales of a marvelous play land, which leaves their brains addled for life. The mothers piled into the church as fast as they could hustle...
...lure of a peep into the White House's own files made an overnight bestseller last week of New York Herald Tribune Reporter Robert J. Donovan's new book, Eisenhower: The Inside Story (TIME, July 2). Many a newspaper reader rushed to get it because most of the U.S. press, apparently confused over the release date, lagged in reporting Donovan's fresh material. Among the most avid: Democratic Congressmen, who promptly began to cry "foul...
...prostitute−and a two-year-old illegitimate son to show for it. But it is Hank, a Neanderthal 18-year-old, around whom the family and its impending tragedy pivot. A stint in his father's boots as the family's wartime disciplinarian, plus the lure of easy money, has turned Hank into a small-time mobster. He wields a mean cosh in a gang that includes sister Katie and two of his brothers. On one night's prowl he kills an old caretaker. From that moment on, the life of the bunker family disintegrates with...