Word: baits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...down, 235-69. An almost inevitable resolution on segregation packed a surprise: it was far milder than the U.S. Supreme Court ban, was challenged only by four Northern delegates-for its severity. Joe McCarthy was routinely deplored, rather than denounced; not even a stouthearted right-winger rose to Red-bait in reply. Nor did the students spend much time discussing the vagaries of the draft and U.M.T. (rejected by N.S.A. in 1952). Said one N.S.A. officer: "We're pretty well resigned to all that...
...some wood cuttin' when the groceries run low. "Swamp sprout" that he is, Skeeter dreams mostly of a "li'l old" shotgun. Uncle Jesse has his dream too: he's going to get him a set of "Roebuckers" (false teeth) so he can "eat me a bait of hicker' nuts" and "enough roasting ears to kill a goat." When Skeeter finds him a "li'l old puppy dog" lost in the swamp, life seems about as sweet as it can be without a shotgun. Thing about Lady is. she can't bark...
Last year, when President Eisenhower offered food to the hungry citizens of East Germany, his offer was rebuffed by Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov as "provocative and insulting" and "bait for agents." Undismayed, the President repeated the offer last month, after the disastrous floods in Central Europe (TIME, July 26). Last week he got a surprising answer. In a formal note, handed to U.S. High Commissioner James Conant, East German Premier Otto Grotewohl not only accepted the offer but thanked the President. Bewildered East Germans were informed of the U.S.'s "friendly gesture" in the Communist press and radio...
...acrid smoke of the Republican factional feud, Kansas Democrats sniffed a heady perfume. As bait for roiled Republicans, they nominated Banker George Docking, 50, a middle-of-the-road Democrat, hoped they might elect a governor for the first time since 1936, when Walter A. Huxman rode in on Franklin Roosevelt's coattails...
...mainspring of the action is a murder. A leader of the opposition to a brutal labor czar is cut down before he can testify against the tyrant (Lee J. Cobb). The Orestean hero (Marlon Brando), an ex-pug who has-not quite unwittingly-served as bait in the murder trap, is pursued by the Furies of remorse in the singularly amiable form of the dead man's sister (Eva Marie Saint) and in the sterner shape of a waterfront priest (Karl Maiden...