Word: tempt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...league baseball. ("I'm the guy who was going to shove Snider out of center field," he remembers with a wry smile.) Now he knows that basketball is his game. He is so central to the Celtics' championship hopes that last week Coach Red Auerbach refused to tempt trouble by putting him back in uniform too soon for the four and five pounding miles of running required in a pro game. So Bill bided his time until the St. Louis Hawks invaded the Boston Garden late last week. Then, Bill Russell, San Francisco's string of coordinated...
...Righter Lawrence was reflecting the anguish and anger of other states'-righters as the Clinton, Tenn. integration case (TIME, Sept. 10 et seq.) moved from the local schoolroom to the federal courtroom with the arraignment last week of 16 segregationist leaders before a federal judge on con-tempt-of-court charges...
...result, industrial stock averages have slipped to 181. However, the demand for new capital is so great that eleven big firms, led by the Robert Bosch electrical company, recently went into the market with $109.5 million worth of bonds and pegged them at an 8% interest rate to tempt investors, v. about 4% for stocks. By last week not only had the bonds been snapped up, but exchange officials predicted that other securities such as municipal bonds, government bonds and stocks, which slipped lower in the first rush to buy the 8% bonds, would also be on their...
...nourishes about a dozen other oddsmaking establishments. Some beef up their income by peddling parlay cards (insidious lists of the week's games with which small handbooks tempt small bettors); some even book bets on the sly. None are as large, or as furiously legitimate, as the Clearing House...
...natives gives The Nun's Story the warm glow of Albert Schweitzer's "reverence for life," and probably brought Gabrielle close to peace of mind. But once, when she learned that three men were caught in quicksand and rushed out of the convent in a vain at tempt at rescue, she was rewarded with a dressing-down that probed deep into the difference between religious vocation and mere doing good. "Not only did you leave the convent without permission," said Mother Mathilde, "but . . . you failed also in charity . . . I might have wished . . . to assign Sister Aurelie to that...