Word: baits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prodigious feat of analysis, narrative and condensation, Bertrand Russell has compressed the history of Western philosophy into 320 pages. (In a 1946 volume, he took nearly three times as much space.) As ground bait in the chilling stream of philosophic speculation, the publishers have sprinkled 500 illustrations, half of them in color, through this volume. From Thales (circa 624-546 B.C.), about whom little is known, to Whitehead and Wittgenstein, both of whom the author knew well, Russell tells something of the life as well as the ideas of the hundred-odd philosophers who have helped to make the mind...
Island Newsday-before vanishing from public view into an apartment on Manhattan's upper East Side. This week, having dangled an irresistible bait, the Washington Post and Times Herald announced that it had lured Cartoonist Duffy, 60, out of hiding...
...maps) and head south to Leyte Gulf. Two smaller forces, operating independently under Vice Admirals Shoï Nishimura and Kiyohide Shima, were to come through Surigao Strait, move north and close the pincers with Kurita. Meanwhile, a fleet under canny old Vice Admiral Jisaburo Ozawa, with carriers for bait, was charged with decoy duty to "advance into Philippine Sea east of Luzon" and "lure the enemy to the north...
Worst aspect is that more and more of the victims are gullible citizens of underdeveloped countries. Thirsting for status-by-schooling, they assume that any U.S. school advertising itself abroad is Government-approved. They save their coppers, lunge at the bait and get hooked. Result: the prestige of genuine U.S. degrees is falling; some countries refuse to recognize any but those of famed institutions...
...would Oscar think of using bait ("Them's use bait, they're stink fishermen...