Word: luring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This Guy?" It was no surprise that Bui's reputation was known to Jacqueline Kennedy, who loves French cooking. But the story that the First Lady had been guilty of the unpardonable impropriety of trying to lure him away from the ambassador was as shocking as serving a sweet white wine with pink filet mignon. From London the cables buzzed with a story that Letitia Baldrige, Jackie's social secretary, had telephoned Bui one midnight last week and, in liquid French, offered him a substantial raise in pay to come to Washington and cook for the President. After...
Peking's lure to Japan is trade-described in the oft-repeated phrase "600 million new customers." From the past record, the Japanese should know that Red China is interested in politics, not business. Two years ago, Peking unsuccessfully tried to use a $196 million trade pact as a lever to secure diplomatic recognition. When the Japanese government stubbornly withheld recognition, the Chinese peevishly broke the pact and flooded Japan's Asian markets with cut-rate textiles and consumer goods. But the Chinese bait is nonetheless as enticing to many Japanese as is the Russian talk...
Frustrating at first was the search for a leading lady to lure Fletcher Christian Brando, in T. S. Eliot's words, "under the bam, under the boo, under the bamboo tree." Then one day a supple vahine named Tarita broke into spontaneous dance before Brando and Director Reed, swayed sensually to the rhythm of sharkskin drums, and extolled Brando's prowess as a godlike lover and drinker of awa, a local fermentation. Brando and Reed conferred. Soon the coconut radios of Tahiti were spreading the message that Tarita had become Hollywood's newest star...
...Prince Philip was heard. "Fasten your seat belt," he cried. The Queen grinned and clambered up to her seat. Two days later, Philip took stage center himself when the maharaja put on a tiger hunt. The first day neither the efforts of more than 100 beaters nor the lure of scores of staked-down bullocks and goats produced even a single cub. But on the second day a handsome, 9-ft. 8-in. tiger loped into sight...
...Stevenson, Richard Nixon, and Harvard's Dean McGeorge Bundy. The debate led to a decision that Chicago needed neither a big name nor an experienced academic administrator, but rather, as Trustee Chairman Glen A. Lloyd put it, "a top scholar in his own right"-a bright light to lure other top scholars to Chicago...