Word: lures
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...veteran developer who bet that dreams of warmth and leisure would prevail over miasmal realities. Florida's first land barons dredged canals and transformed muck into pay dirt. Huge damp swaths of the stuff were then subdivided and merchandised as paradise. Georgia Poet Sidney Lanier was hired to lure frostbitten Northerners with seductive publicity, and William Jennings Bryan was paid $100,000 a year to tout lots in Coral Gables. "Florida," writes Rothchild, "missed that period of American migration when you could get to know a place before you saw a brochure...
...here," one particularly groomed young man confided to a companion while stumbling up the side at intermission. "We made it through the first act which"-- punning in spite of himself?--"is better than last year." Observers, noting the queasy rush toward the bathrooms, doubtless agreed. But the lure of the magnums proved difficult to resist; although the lights dimmed and then flicked frantically, hundreds of champagne-soaked feet remained planted firmly in the crowded lobby...
...Jeffrey M. Rosen '86, the lure of working for the "Bible of budget travelling" was too great to resist...
Harvard is expected to try to lure the former Harvard associate professor back to Cambridge with a package that includes ample office space, workshop resources, sufficient salary, and employment for Skocpol's husband William, a Bell Laboratory physicist who also taught several years ago as a Harvard junior faculty member...
...visiting in March, is one of the few places in the country that covers Skocpol's mixture of physics and engineering, stated Sorensen. A few years ago, Sorensen-then at the University of Wisconsin--tried to find a job for Skocpol in the Madison area so as to lure his wife to Wisconsin...