Word: lures
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...took them for a boat ride, and showed them the best spot for fishing. One young lady refused to bait her hook with a live worm, and received instead an artificial lure. After the ride they went to a party where the cheer flowed so freely that five of the subjects developed wretched hangovers when Morton told them it was the morning after...
Having Radcliffe girls broadcasting first started as a publicity stunt for WHRB ten years ago. The Harvard station was then plugging for a larger audience, and used some 'Cliffedwellers as announcers and listener-lure...
Fifteen hundred cups of free beer (also Coca-Cola for abstainers), a continuous concert by Schneider's Silver Cornet Band, and a warm, post-general examinations, spring evening are expected to lure over half of the graduating class to the gathering. Arrangements will be cancelled in the event of rain...
...which seems to buy less every day; 2) many wealthy Frenchmen have avoided paying taxes for so long that they no longer dare invest their money for fear of being found out. By restoring confidence in the franc, and by waiving prosecution of past tax offenders, Pinay hoped to lure back into useful circulation some $10 billion worth of hoarded jewels, dollars and bullion. He won his point narrowly: 259 to 210. At 1 a.m., his budget passed intact...
...sixpences each week to "have a flutter" on some 100 football pools. The average weekly bet is low (about 50?), the chances of winning about one in 30.* The payoffs run from a half crown to the maximum of ?75,000. But because of the get-rich-quick lure and the fascination of working out "the perfect system," playing the pools has be come a national gamble that keeps families all over Britain busy for hours each week. It has also become big business the seventh largest in Britain. The football pools now gross $150 million a year, account...