Word: bait
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Build-Up. All week long, Liberals and Tories tried to build up issues for the federal election. The government whipped through, without hindrance from the Conservatives, vote-catching items such as increased old-age pensions and baby-bonus payments. Earlier, the government had chopped income taxes, always good election bait. Both parties got together in Parliament's last days, for a unanimous ratification of the North Atlantic Treaty...
...need not close the door on life. The moms and pops want your sacrifice . . . They wouldn't do it themselves . . . The people who operate these training institutions (old maid factories) are greedy for your sacrifice so they can continue in their positions . . . Don't let them bait...
Winter or ice finishing is fine for the casual athlete who can only operate with bursts of energy. The technique, practised wherever there is ice in New England, is to chip a simple hole in the ice, drop a hook and bait into the water. At the other end of the line you attach a wooden bob with a violent red flag on a short length of stick and lay same on the ice next to the hole...
...finer people than those in [Howell's district]. Why, there's a church every three miles and they all keep their graveyards clean." He told off Goldwasser. "That roaring lion from Judea is a disgrace to the Jewish race. He wouldn't even make catfish bait in the Altamaha River...
...dangling the juicy bait of tax savings before other NBC stars, soon made off with Jack Benny. Bing Crosby, Edgar Bergen, Phil Harris, Fibber McGee & Molly, and Red Skelton were reported planning to join the exodus to CBS. This week the tax collector cut the gossip short. He had bad news for radio stars who would like to revise contracts...