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Even while they avoided complex social problems. Evangelical missionaries have always cured bodies as well as saved souls. There is a new emphasis, however, on help as a good thing in itself?rather than just as bait to attract converts. The number and variety of Evangelical projects at home are broadening dramatically as ministries bring care as well as conversion to the despairing and needy of America...
...Prostitutes were recruited in 1961 to bait sex traps for the leaders of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, a pro-Castro group. The FBI's New York office sent a memo to Hoover suggesting a scheme to have a committee leader "picked up on local charges in the event he places himself in a compromising position...
...Pirandello's plays, the bait of appearance masks the hook of reality, but the mysterious fish of life is never caught...
Honey trap: counterintelligence snare with male or female sexual bait...
Parks claims the city has gone without any educational leaders since the era of Horace Mann. The present school committee won election in 1975 with 3 moderates taking control. They no longer publicly race-bait and plunder the system in the fashion of their predecessors, but David I. Finegan. John McDonough and Kathleen Sullivan have proven to be a disappointment. Unpaid school committee membership is usually regarded as a springboard for higher office; with visions of the mayoralty dancing in their heads, the committee members failed to rise above the soap box and job recommendation mentality...