Word: baited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Duff, no man for compromise when the battle is going, refused the bait. If Jay Cooke had Grundy's support, he said flatly, then Cooke was not for Duff. Last week Duff summoned the more sympathetic of the state's 67 county chairmen to Hershey to pick a slate. Fifty-one of them or their representatives showed up. But many of them, more interested in patronage than principle, obviously preferred Cooke to bitter intraparty strife...
Southern Methodist University in Dallas reported that 13 undergraduates were enrolled in its new one-credit course: bait-casting. One of 16 alternative sections in Physical Education 12A, a required course for sophomores, it offered instruction three hours a week in the art of casting...
...writer out of him, saves his sympathy for the Eskimos and his wrath for missionaries who, with "tea and keks," are trying to change the Eskimos' manners & morals. Readers who gobble up Author Ruesch's enticing fictional blubber-ball may never suspect that it is dialectical bear bait until the later pages, where an aged anga-kok (medicine man) sums up his people's primitive philosophy, and makes it sound as up-to-date as a modern university lecture by a materialist philosopher...