Word: tempte
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...luckiest seeds in nature are swallowed by birds, then dropped on their future sprouting places encased in pellets of fertilizer. Fruits and berries tempt birds to serve as airborne seed-planters...
...Whenever the avarice or the ambition of Russia or Great Britain shall tempt them to make the prizes, the fate of Asia will be sealed, and the future Chinese relations of the United States may be considered as closed for the ages, unless now the United States shall foil the untoward result by adopting a sound policy. It is my opinion that the highest interests of the United States are involved in sustaining China . . . rather than see China become the theater of widespread anarchy, and ultimately the prey of European ambitions...
...Lewin had brought art to Hollywood. Their Picture of Dorian Gray centered around a worm-crawling canvas painted by the Albright brothers, to portray Oscar Wilde's character .after his sins caught up with him. Few of the paintings of Anthony's temptation looked seductive enough to tempt a saint; mostly they seemed to show Anthony suffering the torments of hell...
...artillery and infantry are skillful at joint action. It is important for us to devise plans that will tempt the enemy to scatter and waste his fire...
...farmers weighed their fears with their dreams. To tempt farm hands back from war plants they were offering $7 to $12 a day, plus room and bountiful board. They sent out calls for thousands of Italian and German prisoners to work the fields. They counted on the help of clerks and storekeepers in the towns, who will lay off at noon and head for the dusty fields. They needed women and teen-age kids to man the roaring tractors, to drive the heavy grain trucks to the elevators and even to operate some of the big combines...