Word: lures
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pilgrim's practical pointers, such as the warning against letting prayer get sidetracked by "spiritual" thoughts. "If the [Devil] cannot turn us from prayer by means of vain thoughts and sinful ideas, then he . . . fills us with beautiful ideas, so that one way or another he may lure us away from prayer, which is a thing he cannot bear . . . [My teacher] taught me . . . not to admit during times of prayer even the most lofty of spiritual thoughts. And if I saw that, in the course of the day, time had been spent more in improving thought and talk than...
...book first finds him in bed, for Oblomov is a Russian Hamlet, except for a lower I.Q., and his daily question is: To get up or not to get up? His room is a maze of cobwebs and clutter. Friends drop in and try to lure him into making the social rounds, but he shoos them off. Parasitical cronies cadge a few rubles from him, while his decrepit old manservant grumps and bemoans the good old days. For a good 100 pages, Author Goncharov drains every drop of social comedy from the venal parade around Oblomov...
...Lure of Luck. Part of Brazil's failure to live up to her potentialities and aspirations is certainly traceable to the national character. The Brazilians' apocalyptic vision of their nation's future is itself a hindrance to progress. It encourages the comfortable idea that the brilliant tomorrow will dawn inevitably, no matter what men do or fail to do today. The common expression, "God is a Brazilian," is half-humorous, but it is also half-serious...
...more, proportionately, than the $45 million or so spent by banks, whose assets are seven times larger. A number of savings and loan associations offer many traditional banking services, including safe-deposit boxes, travelers' checks and money orders. They also have gifts for new investors, offer special lures for children. Last year 300 associations were using the services of Hopalong Cassidy to promote savings among moppets. But the biggest lure of all is the interest paid on savings. The average savings and loan dividend is 2.8% v. the 1¾% paid by banks...
...then the rainmaker appears; and after him, indeed, the deluge. As a symbol-as a transformer of lives and a spokesman for faith rather than mere facts-he seems out of the dead past of playwriting. As a romantic swashbuckler, given to fancy rainmaking and fancier lovemaking, he lacks lure: his philosophizings are an intrusion and his love scenes somehow an offense. He may save the crops but he decidedly mars the play...