Word: lures
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...beasts are an anomaly in the town. But they become more and more appealing to the people. The human beings yearn to become rhinoceroses. The comfort of conformity becomes more attractive than the responsibilities of individualism. So one by one, the people of the town succumb to the lure of the mindless pact. Even Stanley's saccharine girl friend Daisy (Karen Black) and his best friend John (Zero Mostel) go over to the side of the rhinos. Only Stanley resists. He becomes the anomaly...
...competition for high school stars, particularly in football and basketball, gets more intense every year. "The go-getter gets the best man," says Tarkanian's new colleague, University of Nevada at Las Vegas Football Coach Ron Meyer. "You can't afford to leave a rock unturned." To lure their victims out and get them to sign letters of intent, many schools use inducements limited only by the imagination of their recruiters...
Despite his ability to lure outside funding, he has not yet removed the Academy from the financial state of siege under which most cultural institutions live. In one instance in 1971, only a private gift from a board member saved the staff from a payless payday...
...enough to survive many storms. Social critics might, and regularly did damn the high-powered car as a strangler of cities, fouler of the air and catalyst of a blighted landscape of junkyards, filling stations and hotdog stands. Foreigners might tempt with siren songs of durability and economy, and lure no small number of Americans into dalliance with a Volkswagen or Toyota. Even the average driver in the last decade or so might grumble at his beloved during a traffic jam or on the day that the insurance premium came due; he might actually feel a bit shamed when comparing...
...plan also permits the department to fund each student up to $1000 below his minimum support needs. This option allows each department to generate money which it can use to lure top-caliber students to Harvard, regardless of their financial need...