Word: lures
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Moonies blame the mayor for stirring up resentment against them, but there is widespread sullen suspicion in town about the church's plans. So far, however, no Moonies have tried to lure the young of Gloucester into their ranks, and no legal charges of any kind have been filed against the church and its operations...
...engine pylon mounts during routine maintenance caused the damage that led to the calamitous engine loss in Chicago.) The report also recommended that at least for engineering work, there should be a centralized organization with facilities and staff large and attractive enough to lure people of the highest technical competence to the agency's ranks...
...story line continues the basic good-guys vs. bad-guys theme of the original film. Darth Vader wants Luke, and he uses Leia, Han, Chewbaca and C-3PO as bait to lure the young hero into his chillingly evil clutches. Like its predecessor, Empire provides some genuinely comic moments and some downright dimwitted dialogue. But unlike the original, the new film contains some truly shocking plot twists...
...short while will prove capable of resisting the discrete charm of the city's professional athletic assemblages, which have shown an unparalleled ability to lurch from crisis to crisis in a manner reminiscent of the country's foreign policy makers. More likely, you, too, will fall prey to the lure of the Green Monster and the Sirens of Swat...
...some unsolicited manuscripts must fall, and fall and fall and fall. They are almost never any good. Established authors, editors, critics and agents read them glumly, but with a touch of the spirit that moves others to buy lottery tickets. The big payoff may be ridiculously unlikely, but the lure is irresistible. Novelist Walker Percy was handed an improbable winning number in 1976. A teaching stint in New Orleans left him vulnerable to would-be writers. One day a bulky manuscript was thrust upon him by a middle-aged woman wearing white gloves and accompanied by a chauffeur. She firmly...