Word: lures
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Johnson's campaign had two purposes: 1) to expose him to as many Southern voters as possible, and 2) to goad or lure the reluctant Southern politicians into action behind the national ticket. He was still sensitive that so many thought him a drag on the Democratic ticket, while Henry Cabot Lodge was a gain to the Republicans. Johnson shed all of his pre-convention pretense of being a Westerner, not a Southerner, campaigned as "the grandson of a Confederate soldier" (running, he often added, with a man who. despite his fortune, is "the grandson of a pore Irish...
...much "research" is not all it might be. and is sometimes at the mundane level that most impresses state legislators, there are signs of improvement. With huge budgets, state universities can lure and equip more top researchers. With lower tuition than private schools, they attract more graduate students. At the University of Michigan, 40% of the enrollment is graduate students. At Cal, it is 43%. Many state universities are moving in the direction of the exclusively graduate institution that the rest of the world calls a university-even though they will always have undergraduates...
...Nasser of Egypt, had jointly decided that the U.N. meeting offered an opportunity to promote their dream of a worldwide bloc of nations uncommitted to either East or West. Others were coming out of national pride: for the leaders of nine new African nations* of the French community, the lure was a chance to preside at their countries' U.N. debut-and, judging from hints out of Washington, to meet Dwight Eisenhower. Ghana's U.S.-educated President Kwame Nkrumah was coming to advance his own claims to leadership of all the Africans...
...child learns only part of the story, and unconnected facts have "a pitiably short half-life in memory." Indeed, the only facts worth knowing are those that reconstruct details when needed, e.g., basic scientific formulas. So too, the child must be given the kind of facts that lure him onward. It is one thing to show him a black dot on the map called Chicago. It is altogether different to teach him the basics of social and economic geography-and then give him a map with physical features but no place names. He may locate Chicago at the junction...
...Hans Holbein the Younger had quit the town to seek richer rewards elsewhere. Now, dressed in the finest silk and velvet, he was court painter to King Henry VIII of England; his name was known throughout Europe, and Basel was ready to shower him with honors and commissions to lure him back permanently. The city failed, but it has cherished Holbein as its own ever since. This summer, when the University of Basel celebrated its 500th birthday, it decided to mark the occasion with a special tribute to the man who did not stay-a huge exhibition of 452 works...