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Word: tempts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Proceeds from the performance will help finance a Hand-sponsors conference in April which will at tempt to coordinate community service programs at more than 150 East Coast universities, Hackes said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jazz Musicians Play for Education | 3/22/1985 | See Source »

...solid summer he spent rounding up the children of Brantford to practice breakaways on lone goalies in an indoor ice rink, using tennis balls. "I'm still not that good on breakaways, but I'm four times better than I used to be." The truth is, shinny games tempt him. Meanwhile Bird is embarrassed to admit, "Last summer I caught myself shooting around for five hours. I thought, 'What's wrong with me?' It's like I get this guilty feeling that I'm not playing enough, that someone is playing more." Dr. J? Magic? "Some kid in the sixth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Masters of Their Own Game | 3/18/1985 | See Source »

...Americans will probably then see if they can tempt the Soviets into deferring the disagreement over Star Wars and cutting a deal on offensive weapons alone. The Soviets have softened their line on some other issues in order to return to the Geneva talks, but the chances are next to nil that they will give up their insistence on linkage between any agreement on offensive weapons and parallel progress in the talks on defense. It was at Soviet insistence that the communique released by Shultz and Gromyko after their January meeting in Geneva said, "The sides agree that the subject...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Upsetting a Delicate Balance | 3/11/1985 | See Source »

Opposing coaches have started to send their forward aggressively into the crease to tempt the ECAC's Billy Smith into drawing a slashing penalty...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: MacDonald Gives Harvard a Break-Every Day | 2/14/1985 | See Source »

...experience in gentle but nonsoporific tranquillity. The time is 1963, and Jeffrey Willis (Matt Dillon) is a poor Brooklyn boy working for the summer at an upper-middle-class Long Island beach club. There he meets a car dealer (Richard Crenna), slightly shady and blatantly materialistic, who tries to tempt him away from the good values of his decent dad (Hector Elizondo), a plumber whose trade may be humble but whose spirit is not. There is originality and poignancy in Neal Marshall's story about competing father figures, and Garry Marshall's direction is unforced but never lackadaisical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rushes: Dec. 24, 1984 | 12/24/1984 | See Source »

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