Word: tempting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Joint Congressional Subcommittee on International Exchange and Payments. He said that the U.S. "would pay a stiff price for any compromise with South Africa." A floor under the private price of gold, he argued, would encourage speculation by taking the risk out of it, and would possibly tempt foreign bankers to demand conversion of their dollar reserves into gold...
Thoughtful, deliberate Eric Sevareid probably comes closest to the liberal intellectualism that is anathema to Agnew. Yet, even he shares an Agnewesque distaste for "professional intellectuals. They tempt me to agree with Eric Hoffer, who said that intellectuals must never be given power because they want people to get down on their knees and learn to love what they really hate and hate what they really love...
Buoyed by a 31-0 trouncing of Wesleyan last Saturday, when the Crimson finally got its backfield together and moving, Harvard's rebounding rugby team will at tempt to even its season's record this afternoon when it visits tough Cornell at Ithaca...
...last weeks of summer, many productions are being mounted that should tempt theatergoers, be they classics buffs, lovers of drama, or fond of a spontaneous laugh or engaging melody...
...Right Price. There was more, of course. He had a fine sense of the exact price to put on a new securities issue, just enough to tempt investors to buy. In the 1930s, when company boards usually did little but give ceremonious approval to management decisions, he popularized the role of the working director-demanding that management circulate agendas for board meetings and supply directors with figures to study in advance. In his career, he sat on the boards of more than 30 companies, including Ford, Sears, Goodrich, General Electric and General Foods...