Word: baited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...student at the Graduate School of Education and a teacher of drama exhumed from its mouldy sepulcher the idea of a year round stock company. He procured Brattle Hall for his winter headquarters and began enticing New York actors and actresses away at non-astronomical wages with the bait, rare for the theatrical world, of steady work in one place. He figured that he could attract full houses without paid advertising by scaling ticket prices down, putting on a different play every week, and distributing large numbers of "guest" tickets in such places as the Coop and the H.P.C...
...Franco been a little less sly, and Hitler and Mussolini a little less stupid, Spain would have joined the Axis, Sir Samuel believes. It was largely luck that Spain stayed out and pretended to be neutral-luck, plus Allied economic bait, plus the sympathies of a few Spaniards, notably Count Francisco Gomez Jordana, for two years (1942-44) Franco's Minister for Foreign Affairs...
SEARCH EVER SINCE BY WORCESTER TELEGRAM AND EVENING GAZETTE. [NEW] IMPETUS WITH TIME [JAN. 6] NOMINATION, DAY CITY EDITOR HENRY FORD TO STAFF: "FIND HER." BAIT: THREE DAYS...
...cannot bait the new student organization now, for it produced a leadership which represents a cross-section of American students in the strictest sense. Chairman-elect Jim Smith, student body president at the University of Texas, heads an executive Committee including 30 regional chairmen and three representatives of an organizational council embracing every shade of political opinion and religious guidance...
...each day passed, John Lewis worked harder & harder at dangling unspoken offers of truce. The bait was not taken. Lawyer Clifford reasoned that when the other side was talking settlement, that was just the time to hold firm...