Word: luring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...showmanship in the old tradition was also making headway. With the drive-in theater season about to begin, the Hilltop Drive-In near Perryville, Mo. planned to lure the customers by installing the added attraction of two monkeys in a cage. In Champaign, 111., the Twin City Drive-In prepared to put in another piece of bait: a 300-lb. bear...
Work on commercial sailing vessels or steamers is usually hard to get without a union card. Holt said, last year, several students felt the lure of the sea sufficiently strongly to forego profit, chip in, and sail their own boat to Havana...
...trapping the males does little good. Each female, after one encounter with an untrapped male, lays up to 300 eggs under the skins of fruit. The entomologists have not yet found a lure to attract females, which seem to take keen interest in nothing but ripe fruit...
...Harvard," says the headline, "aims for return to football glory." That is to say, Harvard is going to recruit athletes and, as the story explains, will lure them with offers of scholarships, jobs, and loans...
...tide of vice and opportunism, began renting rooms for the night only. The price depended on the G.I.s' alcoholic state-it was usually 20 marks ($5), but in at least one case it was as high as 250. Some mothers even sent their children into the streets to lure the G.I.s home: "Nice warm Stube with big bed, Joe." Among themselves, the burghers began to call their rented rooms Kuckuckquartiere (cuckoo quarters). Celle was beginning to be known elsewhere in Germany as "Veronica Town...