Word: bait
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fishing: a line with a worm on one end and a fool on the other. That definition seems as good as any. The bait may vary, but at the other end of the line, nothing is altered. At about this time each year, eager anglers pour down to lake shores and riverbanks in search of fresh-water fish. And each year, despite millions of dollars spent on equipment, despite the cleverest lures in history, the fisher folk are doomed to interminable hours of unsuccessful casts, tangled lines, spurned bait and impaled thumbs...
...Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth, and thus do we .. .by indirections find directions...
Cooling Hotheads. A few of the more volatile members of the committee almost jumped at St. Clair's bait. Such liberal Democrats as Father Robert Drinan of Massachusetts, California's Jerome Waldie and Michigan's John Conyers Jr. wanted immediately to issue subpoenas for every bit of evidence that Doar was seeking. But Chairman Rodino called a caucus of the committee's Democrats and urged the hotheads to cool off. There would be plenty of time to issue subpoenas, he argued, once the White House intention to cut off all further evidence was totally clear. Meanwhile, the committee staff...
...familiar with it. Locked away in enormous halls, overpriced, and surrounded by unintelligible aficionados, the opera is too often inaccessible to the uninitiated. The Boston Summer Opera Theater is trying to pull opera out of the grand halls, dropping both the formal trappings and the admission price. As a bait for newcomers the company is performing The Abduction from the Seraglio...
Today, althogh ice-fishing is one of the fastest-growing sports in the U.S., the old bundled-up fisherman is fast becoming an imperiled species. At lakes from Maine to Michigan, most winter anglers now dangle their bait from inside heated shacks, many equipped with carpeting, color TV, stereos, stoves chemical toilets, bunks, closets and -the ultimate redundancy-refrigerators...