Word: lures
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nearly 90% of the 1,200,000 Europeans who once tended Algeria's vineyards and ran its businesses have fled (along with some 200,000 job-seeking Moslems), but officials now are anxious to lure back teachers, technicians and administrators to help straighten out the mess...
...City License Commissioner Bernard J. O'Connell denied the club a cabaret license, arguing that the Bunnies' costumes left too much to be desired.* "It would appear clear," he ruled, "that the applicant's main appeal to its prospective customers is the lure of its scantily clad waitresses," who are "using the costume as a lure for the purpose of pushing liquor...
...work for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and they spend their lives in milk cans warmed by a gentle stream of air. Raised and cared for by Entomologist Robert T. Yamamoto, these sex-starved cockroaches are fed on dog meal, and their only job is to exude a sex lure that drives male cockroaches crazy...
After Dr. Yamamoto collected a working amount of sex lure, his colleagues. Chemists Martin Jacobson and Morton Beroza, determined its chemical structure. This called for long and delicate procedures. At last, the chemists decided that the active attractant is 2.2-dimethyl-3-isopropylidene-cyclopropyl propionate. In spite of its formidable name, it is not very complicated for an organic compound, so Jacobson and Beroza are sure that it can be synthesized in quantity without much trouble...
Much better, say the Beltsville entomologists, is the sneakier scheme of using synthetic sex lure to trick the males into crawling over a chemical that will sterilize them but do them no harm in any other way. They will mate normally with normal females whenever they get the opportunity...