Word: baited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...response would have warmed O. Henry's heart. Newspapers all over the U.S. leaped at the bait; feature writers and editorialists wallowed in reminiscence of and sentiment for O. Henry. From a White House lawyer came a letter formally expressing President Eisenhower's "regret" that he was powerless to reverse the 60-year-old jury decree. Thereupon Texas' Democratic Representative Homer Thornberry announced that he was studying the possibility of asking for quick action by Congress. Intoned the Chicago Sun-Times: "A grateful and appreciative American public pardoned O. Henry many, many years...
...Treat. The Dutch launched their campaign shortly after the war, when signs appeared that they would lose Indonesia, need outside capital to supplant that colonial treasure chest. Neither the Dutch nor the Belgians have offered the tax holidays or interest-free loans that many industry-hungry nations dangle as bait to U.S. firms. But they do offer other advantages, topped by free convertibility. "There is no trouble here in transferring dividends,'' says the chief of Guaranty Trust Co.'s Belgian branch, Elie Delville, a pioneer in the campaign to boost Belgium to U.S. businessmen. "You can walk...
Back in New Haven again, Eli captain Paul Lynch read the newspapers and then retorted: "I see that Shaunessy has been saying they'll wipe us off the field. That makes good locker-room bait." He has acquired a record 54 tickets to this afternoon's encounter "for my family and relatives;" and the Lynch tribe clearly does not expect to witness a slaughter...
Ever since Red China began baiting its bids for diplomatic recognition with the glittering prospect of trade, some Canadians have shown themselves surprisingly eager to swallow bait, hook and all. Most outspoken of the lot is Toronto's Globe and Mail, whose publisher. Oakley Dalgleish. recently returned from a tour of the Chinese mainland burbling with admiration for the Peking regime. Last week U.S. diplomats wondered if the pro-Peking line of Dalgleish and his fellow apologists might not be swinging the government in the same direction...
ENRIGHT (talking in the careful phrases of a man who knows that his words are being recorded): There are certain stages we are going to discuss today . . . I'm not going to disclose what the stages are, because I don't want to hold out any bait or anything like it ... I want you to write a piece of paper now to the effect that contrary to what you have said in the past, or written in the past, Dan Enright has at no time disclosed questions, answers, points, anything like...