Word: lures
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...marrying off millions of problem children, reconciling the married ones to their mates. For the hundreds who wrote her every week, she became a standard reference for what is proper. Sample problems and solutions: whether to marry a rich or poor man (rich, other things being equal); how to lure men ("the come-hither look in the eye, a sort of come-on, if you know what I mean"); how to deal with a husband who pays no compliments (forget...
...love with before--in 15 other lives. When she finally sees him in her present life, he remembers none of their former relationship and is unprepared for her sudden declaration of love. He doesn't believe in reincarnation, but she tries to lure him into marriage nonetheless...
...taller-than-average freshman team. So he is now teaching Manning how to shoot set shots from the outside and only come in to the basket to take rebounds. In the opening freshman game against M.I.T. Saturday, Manning was purposely instructed to stay out. This was in order to lure the Engineers' big center away from the backboards which he would have controlled if he had played in close...
...Order. Listed today by the Canadian Kennel Club as thoroughbreds, Little River duck dogs like Dusty and Tootsie were a mongrel breed at the turn of the century. They were bred, so the story goes, to emulate the sly fox that hunters had watched flashing his tail to lure ducks ashore for his morning breakfast. The cross-breeding that first took place in the Little River district of Yarmouth County included collies (for their luxuriant tails), Chesapeake Bay retrievers (for their abilities on the hunt) and spitz (for their playful habit of chasing sticks all day). Somewhere along the line...
Because it likes the lure of the loss leader, no one has fought fair trade laws longer than Manhattan's R.H. Macy & Co. But last week Macy's signed a cease-fire with some of its enemies. Vice President Richard Weil Jr. announced that the store "had signed a small number of fair-trade agreements on brand-name merchandise." He refused to name the brands or whether they included Sunbeam Mixmasters, which has sued Macy's for price-cutting its products (TIME...