Word: lures
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Soviet agent sent to lure Bond to his doom was a voluptuous siren named Tatiana Romanova; though her "body belonged to the state," Boudoirsman Bond swiftly restored it to private enterprise. In one adventure, he did away with "the first of the great Negro criminals" who used voodoo the better to serve Marxism. On another occasion, he liquidated a sadistic Russian agent who had secretly taken over a Caribbean isle and was all ready to divert U.S. missiles launched from nearby Cape Canaveral. In one of his most brilliant coups, Bond thwarted a SMERSH fiend named Auric Goldfinger, who tried...
Parker has one teacher for every eleven students, a fulltime psychologist and 25 part-time teaching assistants. Pay is not high-the lure is freedom in teaching. Specializing in one subject, Parker's teachers get a chance to cover it at many levels. Barr McCutcheon teaches algebra to fifth-graders and transfinite arithmetic to seniors, for example, and McCutcheon need not bother with standard math texts-"a bore." "For an educator, this is heaven," says Principal Thomas, who notes that 36 teachers applied for a single vacancy in the history department this spring...
...sometimes resembles the pocketa-pocketa dream world of Walter Mitty. Chalk it was who in 1959 unsuccessfully volunteered to take New York City's struggling $6 billion bus and subway system off the city's hands for $615 million. Then there was the Chalk plan to lure New York-Washington commuters away from the trains and airlines with a fleet of seven-passenger limousines equipped with telephones and dictating machines. Currently Chalk is absorbed in an 85-m.p.h. rubber-tired "Superail," similar to monorails. He wants to build one from Washington, D.C., across the Potomac...
Movie number one is the thriller. A destitute American named Tom has been commissioned to lure an expatriate Phillipe away from Italy and Marge, a beautiful but suspect art student. Hating his sadistic charge and envious of his wealth, Tom murders him, disposes of the body and in a dangerous game of impersonation seeks to substitute himself for his victim...
Nothing less is apt to lure Hughes...