Word: baits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...president of Contrada's town council, Carmine, a dedicated Monarchist, set himself to bait the sulky showoff, Silvio, an ardent Demo-Christian, at every turn. When Silvio planted cherry trees on the borders of his property, Carmine made him cut them down because they overhung the village highway. When Silvio built himself a tomb in the local churchyard, Carmine complained that its steps were on public property. "Material wealth can never replace brains," he gloated when the steps were ordered removed...
...feeling" of accomplishment. The experience made him skeptical of such highfalutin motives for spelunking as the advancement of scientific knowledge and the development of a nation's natural resources by discovering underground rivers for hydroelectric power. Holes and caves, Tazieff concluded, seduce speleologists with that most tempting of bait, "the lure of the unknown...
...rubber gathered cost a human life." One economical German farmer personally murdered more than 40 Indian slaves in a batch, simply because they were too sick to work. When the Indians murdered a white man, his brother set out some tins of poisoned alcohol in a jungle clearing for bait, and the next day surveyed his catch: 80 dead Indians. Fawcett knew of a sick Englishman who, because he lay still, was assumed by the Indians to be dead; having got this idea in their heads, they decided that his groans were those of his spirit, and buried him alive...
Just when it looked as if the armistice talks were about to break off, and General Harrison, the U.N. senior delegate, had warned the enemy that "time in these discussions is fast running out," the Communists resorted to an old and reliable maneuver. They threw in some bait, in the form of an ostensible concession, to keep the negotiations going...
...world's most unrelenting Anglophobe, the Chicago Tribune's Editor and Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick was treading gingerly last week when the first leg of a month's flying tour* of Europe brought him to London, the heart of the conspiracy. British newsmen went eagerly to bait him in his suite at Claridge's. Only one got in, was startled to find him unexpectedly mellow, even complimentary. "I think you [British] are coming on a bit," said the colonel. After a thoughtful pause, he added: "There's one thing which always strikes me when...