Word: bait
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Meanwhile, Cousin Hugh Carter, 57, says that his worm-farm business in Plains, Ga., is booming. Sales of the little wrigglers, used by the bucketful as fishing bait, went up 25% after Cousin Jimmy reached the White House, bringing in gross revenues...
...attract new deposits, banks have been giving away everything from toasters and TV sets to European vacations. Now the tiny Desert Empire Bank (assets: $8.5 million) near wealthy and exclusive Palm Springs, Calif., has come up with the most alluring bait perhaps considered so far: a $55,000 Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow limousine for any customer who will sink $1 million into 6.25% certificates of deposit for six years. The bank will also throw in the price of the sales tax and license plates...
Even while they avoided complex social problems. Evangelical missionaries have always cured bodies as well as saved souls. There is a new emphasis, however, on help as a good thing in itself?rather than just as bait to attract converts. The number and variety of Evangelical projects at home are broadening dramatically as ministries bring care as well as conversion to the despairing and needy of America...
...Prostitutes were recruited in 1961 to bait sex traps for the leaders of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, a pro-Castro group. The FBI's New York office sent a memo to Hoover suggesting a scheme to have a committee leader "picked up on local charges in the event he places himself in a compromising position...
...Pirandello's plays, the bait of appearance masks the hook of reality, but the mysterious fish of life is never caught...