Word: tempt
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...Negroes to visit white schools and vice versa is to tempt them. Novelist Carl Van Vechten (The Tattooed Countess, Nigger Heaven, Peter Whiffle) has done just that with a scheme involving Yale and Fisk Universities...
...singers, dancers, band leaders-all rolled up into one supposedly stupendous entity. unlike the real thing, however, the picture lacks that thrill of intimate contact which-insured the success of its real-life predecessor and substitutes a series of Acts, some good, some bad, with just the feeblest at tempt at a unifying theme...
...Tell him . . . if he is half the man your husband is he will not tempt you further...
Unlike his colleague, "Frisky" Merriman, Professor Murdock has refused for several years to act in the annual House play. When he once played a drunken porter who drove the other characters off the stage with a blunderbuss, the audience went wild, and he modestly decided not to tempt fate with another appearance...
When Leo wrote in 1891 the great enemy was Socialism; when Pius wrote in 1931 it was Communism; in 1941 it is Naziism-and the Catholic Church seems well aware that some ism or other will always tempt working people away from the creed of Christ the Carpenter unless Christianity has a better message for them. Said the late famed British Monsignor William Francis Barry...