Word: baited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Senator Russell explained that the amendment was not intended to bait industry. Businessmen were cooperating in national defense, he said, but there might be some subcontractors who made essential defense items who were not. But the debate grew hot. Ohio's Senator Taft declared: "I shall refuse to vote for any measure to draft men, and I do not propose to vote for any measure to draft property. ... In drafting men, they may be classified according to rule, and they may be drawn according to lot. However, in this case the matter is entirely within the discretion...
...Hold each by the tail while stirring in rich batter, then fry. . . ." The Japs firmly believe that they have the world by the tail, especially when smearing on the rich batter of trade promises to stir up appeasement talk and dangling mythical profits from war materials as bait which we have swallowed hook-line-and-sinker for nine years, ". . . then...
Those who are most vocal want you to whoop it up, not to think it out. I plead for strength before we bait the bear." >At Cooper Union (Manhattan), Case School's President William Elgin Wickenden told graduates: "The decades of illusion and self-indulgence are over. Your generation may never know security of wealth, of employment, perhaps even of life itself." >Owen D. Young (at Syracuse): "I cannot say that the insistent cry of youth today-jobs, not war'-is wrong, but I can say that unless you are prepared for the second you may never have...
Downtown, the President observed the proceedings with interest. Last July his $870,000,000 Spend-Lend bill was killed by this same House on grounds of economy, and he was loudly assailed as a wastrel and profligate. Warily Mr. Roosevelt prepared a trap last week. The bait: Relief. One morning Secretary Steve Early announced that the President would soon send up his spring Relief message, expected to forecast a $1,000,000,000 appropriation for the fiscal year...
...Italy to talk more peace and more war with his ambiguous Fascist partner. For Germany the Russian victory looked fine. Her Swedish iron ore was safe. Her northern flank was shielded. Her prestige was generally conceded upped. Russia was now free. The Allies and their unfulfilled promises were fair bait for sarcasm...