Word: baited
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...with its new hand, Jersey Standard got a joker. The French have not taken kindly to Jersey Standard's view that the Red Line Agreement is defunct, are now suing-in London to try to keep it in force. As bait to the French to settle out of court, Jersey Standard and Socony have offered to sink upwards of $20,000,000 in Iraq's Kirkuk fields to quadruple production, help build two-and possibly three-more pipelines from Kirkuk to the Mediterranean...
Wily, wicked Volpone (the Fox) is a Venetian magnifico who pretends to be dying and to be deliberating on who shall be his heir. A crowd of voracious hopefuls rise to the bait, heap gifts upon him, satiate his own love of gold. With the help of his parasite, Mosca (the Fly), Volpone performs ever more devilish hoaxes upon his would-be heirs. In the end, duped and dupers alike are punished...
...passenger bait, Alleghany Corp.'s Robert R. Young in January began offering travelers a pay-as-you-go service on the Chesapeake & Ohio, complete with credit cards like those in use by airlines. Last week, 35 other roads announced that they would provide the same service, starting in April...
...Wolf. In Victoria, Australia, a 15-foot shark, spotted swimming up & down outside the women's baths, was finally caught by a knowing zoologist, who used as bait a piece of pork carved in the shape of a-woman...
...board with a full house in the boudoir, the film moves smoothly along paced by the tangy dialogue taken straight from the gaming tables. Some of the best scenes involve Jimmy Gleason, Hollywood's finest con-man, bluffing Frank Morgan, no sucker himself--while various types of bait get their just dues...