Word: lures
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With his own inheritance from his father and $10,000 from Utility Man Budd, Sheil set out to lure off the streets young potential gangsters-white and Negro, Protestant, Catholic and Jew-with a social and athletic program that kept moralizing to a minimum. Boxing was the major attraction. When some high-minded people clucked at the stress on boxing, Bishop Sheil's reply was: "Show me how you can inspire boys away from the brothels and saloons with a checker tournament and I'll put on the biggest checker tournament you ever...
...acres as a communal vegetable garden, and is refurbishing the town recreation hall. Each resident will get medical care (at $2 a month) and free treatment at the eight-bed hospital. Kem hopes that, by guaranteeing $10,000-a-year income and a rent-free house, he can lure a full-time doctor to Ryderwood. Kem has no fears that the oldtimers' lives will be dull: he is leaving the interiors of the houses alone, so that the buyers can fix them up to their own taste. He also hopes to lease a factory building to some business...
Last week, with Editor Townes out, Publisher Smith readied another plan to save the News. To cut costs, he will change the News into a morning paper. To lure readers, he also planned to cut the paper's price from 10? to 7?. But many nervous News staffers were already looking for jobs on other papers...
...prospect of a year at the Sorbonne is often enough to lure many language students into concentration in Romance Languages and Literatures. The Faculty decided several years ago that students in this field could spend their junior year abroad with a language study group. The prospective traveler must meet only three requirements: he must be a candidate for honors, he must at least be in Group III, and he must scrape together the necessary cash...
...preachings against her adulterous mother, Queen Herodias and her stepfather, King Herod. As the movie has it: Salome (Rita Hayworth) was just a nice, healthy girl over whom men lost their heads-figuratively rather than literally. And she danced her famous dance of the seven veils not to lure Herod into serving up the Prophet's head on a platter but merely to distract the King while a handsome Roman commander (Stewart Granger), a secret convert to John's Christian teachings, tried to free...