Word: lures
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lure U.S. tourists scared off by its growing reputation as a center of Communist influence. Guatemala this year decided to stage a lavish international fair. Jorge Toriello, a high-powered businessman who backs the regime, was put in charge with $1,080,000 to spend. Promising the republic a gambling casino, horse races, Miami-style dog racing, Ferris wheels, a roller-coaster and a brand-new bullring, Toriello pitched right...
...months, the Russians have held out the lure of East-West trade to Europe, but the sweet talk has always contained more saccharin than sugar. For the last seven years France has signed an annual trade treaty with Russia's satellite, Czechoslovakia, exchanging phosphates and machinery for pottery, wood pulp and coal-tar products. The pacts have not worked out well. In 1951 the Czechs and French exchanged only 60% of the agreed quota, and last year the figure was down...
...their underlings," the story said, "get the latest dope straight from Moscow at the expense of the Boston taxpayers who are footing the bill for importing Pravda and Izvestia for the Boston Public Library." (Actually, the papers were financed from a private endowment.) The article told how Communists could lure children to the papers and fill their ears with translated propaganda. This story was part of the Post's effort to remove Russian-language newspapers from the Boston Public Library. So graphic was the story that the trustees of the library resolved to make sure their staff kept a close...
...college administrations feel that they are currently bidding for brilliant students just as they might bid for good halfbacks. In an attempt to gain eventual prestige they are trying to lure in students who they feel will eventually make...
...learn, by doing, to set the pace of their own learning and to be spared the accusation of failure simply because their perception, interest or mental capacity does not match that of their contemporaries. This approach is a heartfelt attempt to humanize the vast school system and to lure rather than drive children to learning. But it breaks down a teacher's direct authority, and particularly in "sump" areas of the city, makes the tasks of instructing and maintaining order tremendously difficult and exacting...