Word: lures
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Secretary Selwyn Lloyd, France's Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville, and West Germany's Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano went over proposals developed by their hard-working careermen. Britain's Lloyd said he thought that the West should offer some concession to the U.S.S.R. to lure the Kremlin into detailed talks on Germany; then, with Russian interest whetted, suggest some concessions by the Communists. Couve de Murville and Von Brentano said they thought the West should make concessions only if Russia offered concessions first...
...needs, and he goes to work-alone, since the other cops will not help. When he is dropped from the force, Matthäi opens a gas station and hires a former streetwalker with a young daughter as housekeeper; he hopes that the child's presence will lure the murderer. Matthäi's stubborn faith leads to a long wait, during which he turns to liquor, degenerates both physically and mentally. The murderer does not appear. And yet the question of whether or not Matthäi was right, after all, keeps the reader in suspense...
...danna-sama (the master), there is change. Explains a countrywoman: "The farm wife is quite willing to work just as hard as before, but she wants to be treated like a human being." Girls are no longer sold to textile factories by their parents-now the factories try to lure them by "guaranteeing a husband before you are 30." In the richer farm areas, many households are installing modern kitchens, bathroom plumbing and washing machines that are ending centuries of drudgery...
Though Macao is no stranger to refugees, never had so many-6,000 men, women and children-come at one time. Reason: a report that the Reds were about to start fishing communes, to match the hated land communes. To lure the fishermen back, Peking promised that the fishermen would still be able to keep up to 40% of their catch. The Communists also put pressure on Macao fish merchants not to buy from the refugees. Both pressure and promise failed. In desperation, some fishermen tried eking out a living with odd jobs ashore, or by begging in the streets...
...Instant Money." Every day banks are sprouting new gimmicks to lure credit customers. Taking a cue from the successful Diners' Club (TIME, Sept. 22), some 200 banks have shuffled themselves into the credit-card game. Last week Georgia's ten hard-selling Citizens & Southern National Banks popped out the latest variation, advertised "Instant MONEY-Cash Loans Within 20 Seconds." The C. & S. device is a charge card that enables one to draw immediate cash up to thousands of dollars from any C. & S. teller's window, or to charge consumer goods at 1,000 Georgia stores...