Word: lures
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Blood Returns, Mistress Wilding). Three examples of super-Sabatini (The Sea Hawk, Scaramouche, Bellarion) are to follow. Quickly, one hopes. At his worst Sabatini is a hypnotic yarn spinner. At his best he is a semiserious novelist who, like Dumas père, uses melodrama as a billboard to lure the casual pleasure seeker into a performance more moving and intelligent than he expects...
...during her husband's second stint at Harvard that Monette succumbed to the lure of the Harvard sheepskin and entered the Business School. She told the court yesterday she had only wanted to get a master's degree in business administration at Harvard...
...researchers applied both of them to several trees. Approaching beetles were so confused that they lost their nesting and mating instincts and dispersed into the forest. Capitalizing on the irresistible attraction of sex pheromones for specific species of insects, pest-control experts have been using the compounds to lure insects into traps, where they can be killed or counted to help entomologists determine whether further antipest activities, such as spraying with insecticides, may be necessary...
...immediately to the Rendezvous at the head of Hancock's Wharf, where they will be received with a hearty welcome by a number of brave fellows there assembled and treated with that excellent liquor called grog ..." When a band of fortune hunters gathers in response to such a lure, these "brave fellows" are soon recruited into the growing forces of legalized buccaneers whom General Washington calls "our rascally privateersmen...
...city to find that it has overestimated the Bicentennial trade. Washington and Boston, despite record numbers of visitors, report they still have an abundance of unbooked hotel rooms. How can this be so in the year of the traveler? The answer is that the Bicentennial is only a minor lure after all. People are going places?many in order to get out of the way of the Bi crush?and want to keep moving. Their chief aim is to make vacation history of their...