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Word: lures (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...over the American West, billboards touting such curiosities as 60-ft. cacti and petrified armadillos lure travelers from the interstates to the tourist emporiums of dusty towns. Lacking any such magnet, Clayton, N. Mex. (pop. 3,000), a farming and ranching center nine miles from the Texas border, was long, in the words of Local Merchant Leon ("Buster") Zinck, "a forgotten city?even in Albuquerque." But no more. Now Clayton's Union County Fairgrounds boast a unique attraction: a 100-ft.-tall windmill, the first in the land to be built by the Government to supply electricity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy: Electricity from The Wind | 2/13/1978 | See Source »

...years there, culminating as chief programmer for entertainment shows, he helped keep the Big Eye on top. Moving over to ABC as head of entertainment in 1975, he helped push it past CBS to No. 1. That left only NBC, currently bottom tube on network row. Last week, to lure Silverman away from ABC, NBC gave him the store. It named Silverman president and chief executive officer in charge of not only entertainment but news, sports, stations, everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: NBC: Heady for Freddie | 1/30/1978 | See Source »

...discovers what her true function is to be. A tortured Agamemnon and sorrowful Menelaus can do nothing to stop what has been started; Calchas informs the army of his prophecy, and the soldiers cry out for Iphigenia's death. Achilles, angered by the use of his name to lure the girl from her home, and moved by Clytemnestra's pleas to save her innocent daughter, prepares to single-handedly do battle with the Greek army. But at the last moment, after previously pleading for her own life, Iphigenia decides to face her tragic fate for the sake of a unified...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: A Tragedy--but not a Total Loss | 1/16/1978 | See Source »

...more exciting than writing my Danish paper," Jeffrey Hoyt '81 said. Hoyt, a Denver partisan, watched the game only when the Broncos had the ball, preferring the lure of the pinball machines the rest of the time...

Author: By Marc M. Sadowsky, | Title: Dallas Cans Orange Crush, 27-10, In Super Bowl | 1/16/1978 | See Source »

...memory; hardly any are left on the Atlantic run. Yet down in the Caribbean, the glamour of the swaying grand saloon lived on: cruise ships, populated primarily by the gray and affluent set, visited the islands in style. And today the cruise business is flourishing as never before, the lure of low-priced charter flights to everywhere notwithstanding. Bookings in North America, which account for more than 80% of the world's cruise trade, totaled $1.6 billion in 1977, double the volume of a decade before. The number of passengers has passed the million-a-year mark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Boom in Sunshine Cruises | 1/16/1978 | See Source »

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