Word: baits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Higgs' enthusiasm often races beyond enactment to enforcement of the bill, which will be the focus of his program this summer. "We must force the President to prove his liberalism, to fish or cut bait." Higgs fears Johnson will make an election-year deal with the Southern Senators on the enforcement issue, and the prospect infuriates him. In discussing it, his drawl tightens, the words shooting out singly and passionately; he is no longer the patient, understanding lobbyist. Before catching himself, and smiling at his anger, Higgs reveals both the pain and power of his commitment. His beliefs exiled...
McHarry had planted the item purely as bait. That same afternoon, when it was reprinted almost word for word in a column in Hearst's New York Journal-American, McHarry had the rich satisfaction of hooking his fish...
...grass flats, you let the lure drift, and hope he'll pick it up. In the rocky bottoms, you twitch it a little to catch his attention, because he's going by sight rather than by smell. But if a bonefish wants the bait, he won't nose around much-he'll just strike...
...usually sent out by claims adjusting firms assigned to liquidate the stock of a bankrupt company at distress prices. Every week more than a million similar notices, offering everything from Bibles to binoculars, go into mailboxes across the U.S.-and every week thousands of people bite at the bait...
...exams and took off for New York, where he went on a spending spree that included wining and dining Dancer Marilyn Miller and her chorus line, whom he had got to know by standing outside the stage door in Boston with his family's white wolfhound as conversational bait. When considerably more than his year's allowance had gone up in the heady smoke of this lonely freshman debauch, Bucky cabled a rich cousin and was promptly packed off in disgrace to a cotton mill in Quebec. Harvard gave him a second chance, but Bucky was not having...