Word: baits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...joke by one of Pignatari's chums, but Linda took the bait. She hurried back, made a luncheon date with Baby. But instead of keeping the date Baby threw a special kind of going-away party. At 2 p.m. a dozen hooting taxis began circling Linda's hotel. From each flapped a banner bearing the legend, "Go Home Linda." Tooting trumpets, 30 recruits from Rio's slums marched up waving more "Linda Go Home" signs. Then, from the windows of Baby's suite in an adjoining hotel came a hail of firecrackers...
Business Booster McCormack had other bait, such as low Irish wages (average: $21 for a 48-hour week), low power rates (1 per kw-h). low living costs (50? for round steak, 24? for a shot of fine Irish whisky), and the idea that the U.S. manufacturer in Ireland will be able to sell his goods tariff-free to the future European free-trade area, which Ireland intends to join. The free-trade area should prove particularly attractive to businessmen who set up plants in the 200-acre customs-free zone around Shannon Airport in County Clare...
...long-term treatment of thrombosis patients, because it can be given handily by mouth. But the Wisconsin labs have synthesized more than 100 related substances, and one of these, Link suggested, would make a safe and deadly rat poison. He was right. Named warfarin,* it is usually applied to bait grain. Unsuspecting rats keep on eating it, eventually die of internal bleeding. In the U.S., said Link last week, 70,000 tons of warfarin-poisoned bait have been used without a single human death and with few accidents...
...fishing grounds, the old man clambered along the rocky shore to the cove and cast toward the reef. Always the eel snapped the line or bit through it, and slid back to its underwater cave. As month followed month, the eel grew fat on Ivica's bait...
...results. They justify their program by referring to the help they have given individual patients. But faith healers, religious missionaries, and Norman Vincent Peale, Inc. have had as many individual cures as the psychiatrists, a fact which should give us some pause before we swallow the life adjustor's bait...