Word: lures
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Composer Virgil Thomson explains it, two things have always been able to lure him from his digs at Manhattan's Chelsea Hotel back to his Midwestern home town. First, that Kansas City air: "I like the way it smells, and I get claustrophobic if I stay in New York very long." Second, "the good Missouri food. It is not like going to Cleveland or Pittsburgh. There is nothing to eat there." For his latest homecoming, however, Thomson had a third incentive. In honor of the musician's 84th birthday this month, the University of Missouri Conservatory of Music...
...important you are. You tell him in no uncertain terms: 'Without me, there is no deal. I'm the man who's gonna open doors.' " Thus, the jury's most difficult decision may be deciding if Weinberg went too far in trying to lure the Senator into an illegal deal...
Voter turnouts as high as 90 per cent are expected across the state today, as a tight presidential race and the most publicized referendum question in recent years lure Bay State residents to the polls...
Presidential debates compel both men to gloss over their miscalculations, exaggerate their strengths, try to lure the other one into error, in order to emerge in the eyes of the public at large as a "winner." All of these objectives so coveted in television performances are the opposite of the qualities so vital to Executive deliberation and diplomatic negotiation...
...build from the areas of strength that planners have found in the South Bronx. The SBDO recognizes that the South Bronx, as devastated as it is, is not all like Charlotte Street. Beyond this wasteland is a collection of stable commercial and residential communities, a superhighway system that could lure industry back into the area, and community leaders determined to revitalize the South Bronx despite the paltry contributions of the Carter administration...