Word: tempts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Heath had killed two girls; in the fortnight between the murders, Scotland Yard had let the papers say he was wanted because "he might be able to help in the investigations"-but had forbidden them to print his picture. With the Yard's con-tempt-of-court club no longer over their heads, London dailies last week angrily attacked this police censorship. Their argument: they could have shown Heath's picture to Britain's millions in the two weeks while he was at large-as American papers would certainly have done-and it might well have prevented...
...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...