Word: lures
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...expanded research fellowship program at the center, although it is a lure for post-graduates, may also provide a convenient back exit for professors who want to ignore teaching responsibilities and concentrate on research. Professors will be eligible to apply for grants to support study away from the University--and consequently will be offering fewer courses...
...like sliding down waterfalls in the River of Life or letting my tree-climbing sister climb the Tree of Life. Now I am 77. My hope each evening is that I may have the bliss of falling forever into a deep, dreamless sleep. To me there is no lure in any imaginable sort of "eternal life." The greatest happiness I have ever enjoyed would pall into unspeakable boredom in vastly less than fourscore years, let alone "eternity...
...feet; perhaps-but Lisbon is snoring. Patients, assuming that a man of his means must either be a very expensive doctor or a very bad one, stay away in droves. His fine friends, however, arrive by the dozen to chatter about literature, politics, the latest scandal; to lure him off to a café, the opera, a dinner party, an assignation. Carlos resists, but not very vigorously. In a few months, he finds himself living the life of a Latin playboy and wondering a bit anxiously if anything serious will ever happen...
...game with a ragtail band of Yalies way back in 1874, exactly one year before the initial varsity contest. Inflamed by their ignominious 23-2 defeat, the men from Eli banded together the very next year to form the Yale newspaper, hoping the symbol of formal organization would help lure more agile atheletes to their ranks...
...There would be no crowd to watch and applaud my landing (there was later). Nor was there any scientific objective to be gained. No, there was a deeper reason for wanting to jump, a desire I could not explain. It was a love of the air and sky, the lure of adventure, the appreciation of beauty. It lay beyond the descriptive words of men-where immortality is touched through danger, where life meets death on equal plane; where man is more than man, and existence both supreme and valueless at the same instant...