Word: bait
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Louis catch flounder in Gill nets. April through September; then it's cod season and they alternate between the nets and trawling with baited hooks. Hooks are a last resort since the bait is expensive, the method laborious. A day often lasts from five in the morning until seven at night, and they must go out every day. Nets are left out for a day, then hauled into the boat and reset. A day only lasts until one in the afternoon, and the day in between they mend nets or work on the boat...
...blood to feed its young, she is in truth one of Strindberg's vampire women, a carnivore devouting its offspring. When she has driven her husband to his death, she traps her paramour by forcing him to marry her naive, love-starved daughter using a non-existant inheritance as bait...
Pyrrhic Victory. Most other Australians still detest the dingo. They have spent about $330 million since the turn of the century to eradicate the animal. They hunt the wild dogs from planes, bait sheep carcasses with poison, pay a bounty of as much as $13 per dingo scalp. They have even built-and maintain-a 5,402-mile-long wire-mesh fence that zigzags across most of the island continent, protecting the nation's 148 million sheep from the predatory dingo. Even so, says Brian Neill, supervisor of the New South Wales Wild Dog Destruction Board...
...they can manage if he cares to make a despairing run for his life. It is an offer he cannot refuse in the circumstances. Ventura's run-which includes trying to capture a Russian spy (who is also a well-known symphonic conductor), whom the fugitive needs as bait for a deal with his former masters-forms the substance of a movie that is at once deft and thoughtprovoking...
...save the money. No one is really impressed by Harvard's yearbook and you can always use your roommate's or your neighbor's freshman register. At least wait until you're here in Cambridge and you can do some investigation of your own before jumping for the bait all the groups dangle...