Word: tempts
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...intricacies of the trade tempt Peter to make extravagant offers. On occasion he'll promise a pair of boots, free, to the visitor who can successfully pare a long bootlace from a patch of leather, or drive ten wooden pages into a boot sale without a miss. The latter offer was taken up by a Harvard skier who failed on his first try. The boot hungry student bought a wooden block, some pegs, and a mallet and practiced for a week. His return bout resulted in a near miss and a sigh relief from the Limmer family...
When Peter Baumann was a student at Iowa State College, he got to thinking about chicken wings. Nobody really cares too much about eating them, he decided, and besides, they tempt chickens to fly the coop. So why not get rid of them...
...pound class is still up in the air. Dave Smith has received the medical staff's green light but the Crimson probably won't need him to beat Dartmouth. Coach Butch Jordan may not want Smith to tempt a recurrence of his arm injury...
...week age, Professor Howard Mumford Jones, speaking before a conference of English teacher, accused college literature instruction of "sentimentality." By this he meant that there was too much "ah!" and "oh!" worship, and too little at tempt to place works in their historical contexts. He might also have objected to the lack of critical interpretation in courses, a lack which is equally conspicuous on the undergraduate level in the Harvard English Department...
...luckless person who complains that "everything happens to me" may be stating a scientific fact. Many victims of crime practically ask for it: they stand in the path of the crime and "tempt" the criminal. So said a noted criminologist last week. This theory is not new to science, but it was advanced with new force by Dr. Hans von Hentig in a new book, The Criminal and His Victim (Yale University Press...