Word: luring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hardware store, bought what he recommended. One of the people with me, using spinning tackle, got sold something called a Super-Duper, but he was lucky enough to lose it on his third or fourth cast, so he did not waste all day fishing with a Super-Duper lure, which would have been a move from the sublime to the ridiculous...
...occasion was a four-day "Heirloom Discovery Week," mounted by Sotheby Parke Bernet, the world's largest art auction house. Its purpose: to lure out of attics and dusty desuetude valuables deemed worthy of sale on Parke Bernet's prestigious block. "Operation Auntie Fannie," as one participant dubbed it, in reference to the genealogical source of many of the heirlooms, attracted 18,000 hopeful owners of treasure. They brought in coins and cutlasses, paintings and pottery, silverware and schlock, for evaluation by the company's 40 Manhattan experts. At least one in four visitors hit attic gold...
Many other rinks round the country hope to lure young mothers by giving free or cut-rate skating classes to preschoolers. One rink has mounted a wedding on wheels. Some rent out the entire skating floor on uncrowded week nights to local community groups and private clubs for an average cost of $250. One night a busload of priests and nuns from the Chicago diocese arrived to kick up their heels and habits at a suburban rink. They pirouetted jauntily round the floor, and before long had dubbed themselves-what else-the "holy rollers...
...electoral drama, the most suspenseful in memory, had begun four days before when British voters failed to give either Wilson's Labor Party or Prime Minister Edward Heath's incumbent Tories a majority in Parliament. In a last-ditch effort to stay in power, Heath tried to lure the resurgent Liberal Party (see following story) into a coalition government. But that proposal was essentially an exercise in wishful thinking on Heath's part. It quickly became clear that the Liberals had no intention of trading in their first real surge of popularity in half a century...
...England, bedeviled by crows, dogs, cats, automobiles and all the sundry elil (enemies) known to rabbits, not excluding other rabbits. The rabbit-you-love-to-hiss is a sort of lapine Erich von Stroheim named General Woundwort who runs a fascist-state warren. When the mateless hlessil bucks lure comely does from behind Woundwort's Iron Curtain, all bunny-hell breaks loose...