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Word: luring (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Anglican Beaumont. 53, took over St. George's in Camberwell early this year, he found that he was failing to draw the Teddy Boys and other loiterers off the street corners. So he decided to use a score he had been working on for several years to lure them with the kind of music they normally listened to and could sing. The last real folk Mass, he believes, was written in the 16th century by one John Marbeck, a convicted heretic "I took the liturgy of the Prayer Book, Beaumont explains, "and tried to regard it simply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Swinging Priests | 4/1/1957 | See Source »

...from Manhattan by NBC. The cost of $600,000 will be shared equally by NBC and Michigan's Ann Arbor Educational TV and Radio Center. Some of the projected shows, to be seen on weekdays from 6:30 to 7 p.m. for 13 weeks, sound tempting enough to lure plenty of viewers from commercial channels. Items...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Keeping Awake | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

WHEN Winthrop Rockefeller and the -State of Arkansas got together four years ago, things began to happen in the lives of both. By persuading Arkansans to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and lure in new industry, Rockefeller and the industrial commission he heads are working an economic revolution in the Razorback State. In the doing, the one-time playboy has found a cause-and a home. See BUSINESS, Arkansas Catalyst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Mar. 11, 1957 | 3/11/1957 | See Source »

Lost Eden. McCool becomes a kind of Iago subverting Duncan's better judgment. When Chief is killed by the neighbor who had enjoyed Duncan's wife, it is McCool who offers to lure the man within Duncan's shooting range. After that, the book moves to its bloody close with the implacable fury of a hill-country feud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: South in Ferment | 2/25/1957 | See Source »

...world's top soccer players took their turns for one minute of conversation. On the Budapest end were the players' wives, all with the same message: "Please come home! Everything will be all right." The Hungarian government was leaving no weapon untried in an effort to lure its topflight Honved soccer team back from a renegade jaunt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Game Ending | 2/18/1957 | See Source »

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