Word: lures
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...charm of a familiar tune or the lure of a new melody will draw summer the atergoers to barns, tents and playhouses this week...
...they're built, which is at a one-a-day rate. Most are two-level, three-room "bungalows" or larger "fisherman's houses," with price tags between $36,000 and $50,000-twice what they cost in the beginning, when Spoerry had to sell below cost to lure buyers. Some run as high...
Perhaps in an attempt to counter such bad publicity, Colonel Lien explained his strategy to newsmen in Kontum. In excellent English, the cocky colonel confided that he deliberately used Ben Het as "bait" to lure the North Vietnamese into a position where allied firepower could destroy them. At Ben Het and Dak To, U.S. officers laughed openly at Lien's suggestion. U.S. headquarters in Saigon pointed out that General Creighton Abrams has specifically forbidden ever using allied men as bait...
...Frosting. It is, but Veeck still does not stint on the frosting. In recent weeks, he has rewarded fans with such door prizes as 2,000 coloring books, a lifetime supply of balloons and 1,000 hot dogs. Between races, he has minstrels strolling around the grandstand. To lure more women to the betting windows, he is talking about exchanging trading stamps for each losing ticket...
...chief cause of the deterioration in the U.S. trade balance has been inflation, which raises the price of U.S. goods and increases the lure of foreign products. Many a family has stretched its clothing dollars by turning to inexpensive Japanese blouses, shirts and suits. Shutting out imports, trade experts believe, would only perpetrate inefficiencies and inflationary policies...