Word: luring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last days in Yanan, preparing to flee and reorganize his armies for the final assault on the Nationalists; he and the entire Central Committee were to be on the march for the next two years. Mao, says the guide, left Yanan on March 19, 1947, maneuvering to lure Chiang Kai-shek after him while he closed in on Chiang's rear. The guide took us to where a red memorial now stands to Mao's son, killed by the artillery of the enemy in Korea, the enemy unnamed in courtesy to this American visitor...
Meanwhile, back in Piru, Calif., the unhappy residents have won a reprieve. The Bank of America has agreed to postpone closing the branch until Dec. 31. During that time, local citizens hope to lure a new bank to town...
...males, the lure is almost irresistible, and all the corporate credos against intracorridor alliances melt away. Daniel, the group manager, flips for Sheila, the assistant to his vice president. Judith, the vice president, and Sam, a higher-level bank manager, become entangled. A law-firm associate is drawn to one of the partners. Writes Collins: "Opportunity and need eventually wore down prudence." The author describes the cases in prose that resembles True Confessions more than the normally staid...
...muted his style, sticking to three-piece suits and cowboy boots. But while Leland, 38, newly married and a pharmacist by trade, may be more polished, he is still very much the feisty activist. As chairman of the Democratic National Committee's Black Caucus, he spearheads campaigns to lure more minorities into the party's mainstream. He is also a key figure in the black leadership family, an influential group of elected officials and political activists...
...does what his mother asks. At eight months, and again at ten months, Bradley ignored the illusion of peril and crawled across the table. Now he refuses to budge past the illusionary end of the table, not even when his mother holds out a toy as a lure. "We know that this response is not related to the experiences they've had," says Psychologist Nancy Rader, "but we've found that it relates to the age at which the baby starts crawling, and we're trying to find...