Word: baits
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...piranha-fishing trip last month in the headwaters of the Amazon River confirmed my impressions. The ferocity with which these creatures went after the bait was remarkable. The hands of our Indian guides were covered with scars of old piranha bites. Upon catching one of these tiny demons, the guides immediately had to cut certain nerves about the piranha's mouth to prevent its biting...
Paul Sparer's blunt and pragmatic Cassius is fine in the first half of the play, but degenerates into overwrought fustian towards the end. In his quarrel with Brutus before Philippi, his low delivery of "Brutus, bait not not me," with shaking knee, is ten times more powerful than all the torrent of screaming and bellowing he soon gives vent...
...through the jungled hills along the Cambodian border in South Viet Nam's War Zone C. For nearly a month, the 8,000 men of the Big Red One had bulled their way through triple-canopied rain forest, often recklessly planting small units of their own men as bait. There were no takers...
...Jungle. "The game in the jungle," says the Big Red One's commanding officer, Major General William E. Depuy, "is to send in a small force as bait, let the enemy attack, and be able to react with a larger force in reserve near by. But if the enemy doesn't want to fight, then the jungle goes off in 360 directions. There just aren't enough landing zones in the jungle to corner Susie in the roundhouse...
...Connor, 56, seemed strong last winter because of his proven ability to win elections in New York City but has since slipped back into the pack. "There is a time to fish," he said cryptically, "and a time to cut bait. There is a time to zig and a time...