Word: baits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many companies have disregarded the "draft-bait" status of graduating seniors, however, and have hired them with an eye towards re-employing them when they leave the service. More than 75 percent of the employed men drafted in World War II returned to their jobs, statistics show, and companies keep a sharp eye out for future talent on a long range basis...
...moral purpose to save itself, could not make up its mind to ratify the Pleven (European army) plan, which the French themselves originated. The Benelux countries talked of pulling out of the European army: if Britain wouldn't join, if the French would neither fish nor cut bait, they wanted to return to the old system of nations individually contributing divisions to SHAPE...
Unable to get a hearing from the impresario, Pianist June Allyson schemes to catch his ear by crashing a children's audition as a 13-year-old, baring her dental braces in a demure smile. Johnson rises to the bait, rushes to her apartment the next morning with a fat contract guaranteeing a Manhattan debut. Posing as her own big sister, June tries to talk him into signing her up instead, but he scorns her as a selfish chiseler. At Johnson's insistence, 13-year-old June goes into training-teeth braces andall-at his country home...
...sentimentalizing Michele into a hero of the oppressed, or by treating him merely as a vicious criminal. Instead, he has looked at him steadily with profound sympathy but also with implicit disapproval. The Brigand, as a social document, may help explain why many Italians have snapped at the Communist bait. As a novel, it is an honest and affecting picture of human beings in travail...
Here big Boy Scouts from all colleges compete, but the affair is strictly male, Canoe races, fly and bait casting contests, fire building tilts, wood chopping and back-packing races, and pulp wood throwing contests are featured...