Word: baiter
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While Lady Bird vacationed in a Virgin Islands retreat, the President took Luci with him to a good old-fashioned Democratic fund-raising dinner in Mayor Dick Daley's Chicago. It was the sort of occasion that would ordinarily bring out the rousing Republican baiter in L.B.J. But not this time. Instead, he used it to issue an appeal to the Russian people for friendship, and to declare himself firmly against appeasement. Recalling the lesson of Munich, he said: "In the 1930s we made our fate not by what we did but by what we failed...
...foreign investors who might have helped stayed away-which was hardly surprising, with student riots in Guatemala City and grumbling peasants in the countryside. Then, in mid-1963, Juan José Areválo, 60, Guatemala's Communist-coddling onetime President (1945-51) and Yanqui baiter (The Shark and the Sardines), was allowed to return to stand for election. That was the final straw...
...Chattanooga for a federal trial (his fifth) on jury-tampering charges stemming from his fourth court appearance, and it promises to be a lively one. His attorneys have already said they will call a monumentally hostile witness for the defense-Old Hoffa Baiter Robert Kennedy...
...Wicked Jill and the other wives cause Dean to have a nervous breakdown. Not that any of them have been sleeping in his bed; it's just that he is engaged to marry Elizabeth Montgomery and worries that she too might turn out to be a Daddy Bear baiter...
Such was the atmosphere of the U.S. during the great Red Scare of 1919-20 when Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer rounded up 4,000 aliens and deported almost 600. Palmer was long held to be the worst Red-baiter of them all until Joe McCarthy came along, but Palmer's first biographer contends that he did not lead the witch hunt; he merely rode with...