Word: lures
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vice President's eupepsia restored by Senator Edward Kennedy's hardening decision to stay out of this year's presidential race. Kennedy's lure as a running mate on the Humphrey ticket would attract several millions of the votes that might otherwise go to the Republican candidate, or not be cast, or even gravitate to a fourth party. Partly because of the Administration's war policies, partly also because at 36 he does not feel ready for the post, the last Kennedy brother will almost surely stay out of the race. His decision...
Beards & Blondes. Never, in the 18 years since he fled East Germany as a penniless refugee, has Richter's prestige been higher. Many a city-notably Vienna-has tried to lure him from Munich, but he is not budging. Why should he, when bearded students, blonde duchesses, convent novices, bank presidents and scientists are fighting for tickets to his concerts? He lives a lonely personal life-smoking nervously on long, solitary walks along the banks of the Isar River, draining bottle after bottle of beer while studying at night. But his relationship with his public is a happy affair...
...tension, however, does not preclude socializing. The lure of the opposite sex whittles away at snobbery, and there is much mingling between transient summer students and those who will be around to remember...
Hogan tells Josie that their landlord is about to sell the farm out from under them and makes her agree to a shotgun plot: she will get Jim drunk, lure him to bed, and keep him there until her father appears with witnesses. The scheme backfires in a tender, boozy nightlong sharing of longings and confidences. Jim falls asleep, little-boy-fashion, with his head in Josie's lap, but not before revealing that there is room in his spent life for only one woman, his dead mother. Dawn finds him, the father and the daughter locked again...
...franchises, President John Dunfey says that the family's chief asset is its effort "to keep the personal involvement in the business that we had when we had just a hot-dog stand." To keep up "the spirit and warmth of the old Yankee taverns," the Dunfey inns lure travelers with such country titles as "Cracker Barrel Lounge...