Word: luring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thus, since 58% of all U.S. Catholics are Democrats (see chart), a Republican Catholic candidate might lure one out of every seven Democratic voters to his cause. Unsurprisingly, nearly all Catholics (95%) said they would vote for a candidate who shared their politics as well as their religion. The insignificant 2% who would not vote for a fellow Catholic of the same political persuasion were afraid of upsetting Protestant-Catholic relations...
...need for good school libraries, got them going; extension service teachers organized part-time refresher courses for country doctors, inspired three medical schools (North Carolina U., Duke and Wake Forest); a community drama bureau set up three permanent historical dramas, e.g., The Lost Colony, on Roanoke Island, which yearly lure thousands of tourists for a night's pageantry. The community music bureau whipped up such interest that the North Carolina Symphony annually barnstorms the whole state; the Institute of Government became the adviser to every level of government...
...Burn. At guard-change time one afternoon last week, Myles and Smart directed half a dozen other hard cons in a fast grab of two guards, armed with .30-cal. rifles. Young Smart coldly shot Deputy Warden Theodore Rothe dead. Other ringleaders captured Warden Powell, used the telephone to lure in other staffmen, slashed one guard who resisted, locked up five stoolpigeon convicts, whipped up some 30 other inmates (total: 435) and armed them with knives and meat axes. At nightfall the warden talked one convict into helping him escape, quickly called for an attack by National Guardsmen...
...addition to his regular regional coverage, the Farm Journal's Streeter urges his home-office staff of 15 farm-savvy editors ("the best that money can lure and scouting can turn up-men and women with missionary spirit, who are anxious to help improve life on the farms") to play hooky from the magazine's comfortable building in downtown Philadelphia and roam the country. Streeter himself still likes to drop in unannounced on a farmer, politely decline the invitation into the parlor, and spend hours in the kitchen talking crops...
...objects to statehood (even if Congress were to agree to it) because it would undercut his successful Operation Bootstrap industrialization plan, which uses tax exemption to lure new industry. Under statehood, industry and individuals would have to pay U.S. income tax. Muñoz further fears that his Hispanic island would lose its cultural identity and its Spanish language-"would become only a whiff of vermouth in the martini instead of the olive." Statehood's proponents argue that it would give Puerto Rico six or seven Congressmen and two Senators, a voice in making federal laws and decisions that...