Word: tempting
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...SPEECH In the lexicon of American political jargon, perhaps no two words are as revered. Certainly more are as immune from harm, those who succeed in choking their unpopular stands in the mantle of free speech invevitably appear heroic dissidents, defined by their willingness to challenge the accepted and tempt the wrath of contemptuous majorities...
...TONING-DOWN she maintains a respectful distance from even her own creative process, politely refraining from anything resembling a psychological poke around. Engaged in a sixth novel, she notes first that her publishers won't "allow" her to discuss it, then adds. "I don't want to tempt the gods...
This glimpse is what Singer's stories constantly offer. To catch it, his readers are not required to believe in demonology but merely to agree that much of life is otherwise inexplicable. Why would a devout Jewish husband tempt his beautiful new bride into adultery with a loutish footman? What could prompt a spirited girl to masquerade as a yeshiva boy and then marry a village's most eligible heiress? In The Cabalist of East Broadway, a morose old Hebrew scholar suddenly abandons New York City for a young wife and fame in Israel. Just as suddenly...
...postwar crisis has a U.S. President come close to using strategic nuclear weapons. There was thus no more urgent task for American defense policy than to increase substantially the capacity for local resistance. But a buildup of conventional forces was decried as dangerous because it would tempt distant adventures, or as too costly...
...feel that they would have to cut output to 7 million or even 6 million bbl. to dry up the glut and stop the slide in prices. Sheik Zayed Bin Sultan al-Nahayan, President of the United Arab Emirates, reportedly was in Saudi Arabia last week in an at tempt to persuade King Khalid to send a delegation to the OPEC meeting...