Word: baits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...months Castroites and Communists had been lying low. Then two weeks ago, they formed a "United Anti-Imperialist Front" and launched a series of violent public demonstrations and marches. Twice in seven days, leftist students set a U.S. flag ablaze in front of the National Palace, trying to bait OAS troops into an incident...
...Offering Bait. First off, the five partners-West Germany, Italy, Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg-agreed substantially on a complicated method of financing agricultural subsidies inside the Common Market, the problem that led to the French walkout. They also dropped some proposals that De Gaulle opposes, such as one to give more power over farm-subsidy money to a Europe-wide Parliament and to the EEC executive commission. As bait for the French, the five offered to hold one ministerial meeting without the commission's Eurocrats, whom De Gaulle dislikes because their supranational leanings conflict with his dream...
...that he lured Rasputin to his palace by "pandering" his beautiful young wife to the Siberian mystic. The still-striking Princess Irina Youssoupoff took the stand to state that she had never known nor ever seen Rasputin. And in angry French, denying that he used his wife as "seductive bait," the prince cried, "Jamais...
...most strident voices in Method ism's internal debate have lately been those of the ecumenists. During a June conference of church leaders at Lake Junaluska, N.C., Theologian Albert C. Outler, an observer at the Vatican Council, argued that it was time for Methodism to "fish or cut bait." If the church was really not interested in following through with the Blake proposal, he asked, "would it be wiser to withdraw now rather than later?" In the current issue of the Journal of Ecumenical Studies, Methodist Church Historian Franklin Littell complains that his church's leaders have approached...
...Andrews, N.C., is also a little town. It is one of the most economically stagnant areas of Appalachia. Poor they may be, but Andrews residents are proud too. Under the leadership of Mayor Percy B. Ferebee, a development corporation was formed, and $200,000 was raised. With this as bait, Andrews in two years signed a furniture company. Today, construction is under way on a factory that will employ 900-about three times as many men as there now are in town. Yes, Government agencies helped, but what really did it was the willingness of the people to invest...