Word: luring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Eliot's first wife did not submit meekly to enforced separation, and for many years (before she was confined to an asylum) made persistent efforts to lure home her estranged husband. Once, having heard that he was to speak at a book exhibition, Vivienne launched off for the lecture room, armed with their dog Polly and his three most recent books. She arrived just ahead of him and in the crowded doorway turned and faced him, saying "Oh, Tom." He took her hand, said "How do you do?" and walked quickly past her. After the lecture, she hurried...
Moss realizes that the lure of low rates and really enjoyable air travel might eventually pose a threat to the profit-making entrenched airlines. So the club sticks carefully to the rules, thus preventing a possible dispute by irritated airlines, and employs lawyers in Washington, New York and Los Angeles to insure that Freelandia doesn't lose it's nonprofit status...
...Notice. But professional basketball teams are prepared to pay Bill handsomely to forget about more school: $3 million in salary and benefits at last count. That was the offer made by the Philadelphia 76ers last year to lure Walton out of school. He refused, putting both pro leagues on notice that he will play nowhere but in Southern California. "If I can't," he says, "I'll do other things. I don't want a lot of contradictions in my life...
...more like the Children of God of two years ago (TIME, Jan. 24, 1972). Today the Children are scattered to the four corners of the earth, preaching doom to America, buttering up Libya's latter-day caliph, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, and loosening up their sex ethics enough to lure new members. Only a few hundred of the 3,000 or so hard-core members remain in the U.S. The reason, according to Founding Father David Berg, alias "Moses David," has to do with the comet Kohoutek, which was supposed to herald catastrophe to the nation beginning on or about...
...doubt. But W.F.L. President Gary Davidson was wasting no time showing that his new venture was making progress. He announced a television contract to broadcast one game a week starting in July. He also disclosed innovations designed to lure fans with peppier play: an optional two-point conversion, a fifth period to settle ties, kickoffs from the 30-yard line. But the crucial question for now is the identity of the players...