Word: lures
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...independence, and to integrate its troops into a European army before the cries for a free and unified Germany can thwart the plan. So far, 76-year-old Chancellor Adenauer has managed to avoid the accusation that he seeks to keep Germany divided. But his popularity is precarious; the lure of the Soviet siren is strong, and he has but 17 months left in office (if a parliamentary vote of confidence could topple the government in West Germany, Adenauer might well have fallen by now). Last week Adenauer, fighting against time, announced that West Germany would sign a peace "contract...
...Tour Lure. To lure more tourists, Wyoming's Commerce and Industry Department last week sent out the first of 250,000 free copies of a 16-page color comic book sketching the joys and beauties of the state. The book shows an average American family on vacation-father, mother, daughter and son ("Daddy, stop...
...Life's 43-building Parkmerced apartment project hoped to fill 1,683 apartments at $115 a month and up. By last week, only 37 units were rented of the first 153 finished. In Los Angeles, one luxury apartment owner had to build a swimming pool before he could lure any tenants. Here & there across the nation, some landlords were beginning to offer rent concessions, e.g., move in now, start paying rent in May. Even in overcrowded Manhattan, new building owners were having trouble renting high-priced units ($240 and up for five rooms). On Staten Island last month...
Personal experience comes from years of a war duty which placed me often, in the fight against the totalitarians of those days, in close contact with the men who today lure, mislead and enslave--through petitions, manifests and "coups," in a calculated and skillful progressions--the millions of human beings who too easily forget that God created them as individuals, make me look with contempt upon that kind of propaganda...
Misgivings. On Page One the paper confessed: "Seasoned and mature editors [have] been duped . . . The Herald-American apologizes to its readers for being misled . . . by a seasoned, mature newsman [who] had 'cracked up' and fallen for the lure of a false newsbeat...