Word: baits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sized boga with small hand nets. Then Lieut. Colonel Howard O. Moores Jr., of the U.S. Air Force mission in La Paz, stopped by Titicaca during an Andean fishing trip. He unpacked his gear, assembled his rod and cast out into the lake. Recalls Moores: "As soon as the bait hit the water, the biggest fish I've ever had on a line hit it like a hungry dog grabbing a T-bone steak. I held on maybe five seconds, and he straightened the hook...
...main argument given for this attempt to secure government enforcement of price-fixing is that it protects retailers from "loss-leader" advertising. (Large stores sometimes offer a standard brand product at low prices as bait to attract customers.) McGuire Bill proponents say that this price cutting "fences in" other retailers and they develop this into the argument that Fair Trade is good because it restores freedom of opportunity. IN this special sense it may be "fairer" to the small retailer to enforce price levels on everybody else that are profitable for him. But the McGuire Bill certainly makes terms like...
...took them for a boat ride, and showed them the best spot for fishing. One young lady refused to bait her hook with a live worm, and received instead an artificial lure. After the ride they went to a party where the cheer flowed so freely that five of the subjects developed wretched hangovers when Morton told them it was the morning after...
...counties. Aided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the state's wildlife authorities have mobilized more than 100 skilled game wardens armed with traps and poison. Their aim is to clear foxes from "control corridors" twelve to 16 miles wide around the infected area. Favorite bait is crow carcasses laced with strychnine and buried in "dirt holes" where foxes cache surplus food. Most wild animals dislike crow, but foxes have nothing against it. Each poisoned bait will be carefully mapped, and signs to warn humans will be posted around it. Foxes are admittedly wily, but they cannot read...
...economics were shaky but his performance was superb. It ran the gamut-cajoling, coercing, counseling, wheedling, joking, jeering. Enjoying the performance more than anyone was his chief target, Winston Churchill, who sat, fingertips touching with his hands slung between his knees, smiling benignly, occasionally rising to the bait in high good humor. Churchill, roared Bevan, "is not fit for his office." At this point Churchill interrupted to observe smoothly that Bevan was obviously still smarting from Churchill's wartime description of him: "a squalid nuisance...