Word: tempts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...very good to offer me one of your books and it is your voluminous "Psychology of Character" (especially it if is critically Freudian) that would tempt men, but I am getting blind and I fear if I accepted so good a present I should not be able to profit by it as it deserves. Let me rather send you my forthcoming book of politics entitled "Dominations and Powers" when it appears, probably in the coming spring...
...modern times there have been only two relatively unexplored regions in the entire world to tempt those of exploring bent-Antarctica and central Brazil. Antarctica, having no lure for industry except for deposits of a luckily poor variety of coal, should remain safe from the horrors of civilization in the foreseeable future. The jungle, it seems, will not be so fortunate...
...pray thee, tempt no Democrats to join...
...students will tempt fate, armed bandits, landslides and tropical fevers to negotiate a battered Model A along 2500 miles of mountain highway this summer...
...pained look, particularly when he has to sit still and listen to someone else talk. In appearance, friends have compared him to a better-fed Savonarola. He likes Brooks Brothers suits, good leather, fast cars, fine food (the waitresses at his favorite restaurants are under strict instruction not to tempt him with rolls and desserts), but whatever he enjoys, he usually enjoys in a hurry. He sometimes catches a movie, but rarely finds time to do any light reading-"I always have to read some damn great book." His wife has bought him a posture chair, but he shuns...