Word: baited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...theory, these were the helpless victims in the domain of President Joe Ryan of the A.F.L.'s International Longshoremen's Association. In fact and testimony, most of the witnesses turned out to be men who would dangle a dollar on the end of a hook for either bait or payoff, whichever was in order. The basis they laid: racketeering runs rampant on the waterfront because nearly everyone there complacently accepts corruption as a matter of course...
Last week, Coach Jim Tatum accused Harvard of fishing for athletes with scholarship bait, in much the same manner as his own college, Maryland. "There is no difference," he declared, "between Harvard's academic scholarships and Maryland's athletic scholarships." According to Tatum, both schools give scholarships to good ball players who can meet admission standards...
International horse races, like the weather, are something that people talk a lot about but seldom do anything practical about. In recent years, attempts to lure European and South American entries into big U.S. "specials" have proved a bust. The few whose owners took the $50-75-100,000 bait were either not good enough, or they ran far below their home form. Last week, at Maryland's Laurel Park, the job finally got done-in good, if not conclusive, style...
...prefer Hemingway's version, but I'm mighty glad I read it first. That reviewer ought to be used for tuna bait...
...theory is that the Russians may hold out to Germany as bait that, united under Russia, Germans can have to monopoly on industrializing China...