Word: baited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then there is the Bait and Bullet section, the Ledyard Canoe Club with 16 boats and a shed, the Mountaineering Club. Dartmouth Underground or the Speleological Club for Spelunkers which explores caverns, and the Natural History Club...
Leaning heavily on the crutch of slapstick, Capra works hard to manufacture laughs out of such feeble stuff as the roistering antics of a drunken Irishman, the flowering of frustrated Alexis into hip-slinging whistle-bait, the arch effeminacy of the protocol expert at society weddings. He stages the film's one bright song (In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening) with the same frenzied use of silly props that he displayed in Riding High. Young Italian Soprano Anna Maria (The Medium) Alberghetti sings well in a long opening sequence that has nothing to do with the rest...
...message reads like all other Soviet "peace" proposals, but it also includes a muddily worded suggestion for prohibition of atomic weapons and "establishment of inspection over the implementation of such prohibition." In the past, the Russians have fought any proposal for inspection tooth & nail. There was enough bait in the proposal to make the West look up with interest-and caution...
...prowl for fresh backgrounds at low cost, U.S. independent moviemakers have lately been shooting pictures abroad, with a U.S. star or two for box-office bait. Two samples...
Last week in Pasadena's St. Luke's Hospital, Donnie Morton was perking up after an operation to relieve the pressure on his brain. He had already gained four pounds, was able to whimper and "wriggle like live bait" as he lay in his father's arms. Although another operation was scheduled, and Donald's recovery still depended on how quickly nature could rebuild his wasted body, Arthur Morton was convinced that his son would live. "How can you give up?" he said. "Look at the spunk in him. God will not let the spark...