Word: baits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lucky Buck" contests soliciting dollar bills whose serial numbers included a five and a zero, and zodiac-and crossword-puzzle contests. All offered free dance lessons as a reward for the right answers, but the FTC charged that the contests were too easy to be genuine, were used as bait with which high-pressure Murray salesmen conned prospects into signing up for added courses...
...Need Food." By prearrangement, Proctor picked up the first batch of Boyd copy for distribution to the 40-odd papers that had bitten on the Chronicle bait...
...years since 1889, currently pays $4 per share. The C. & O., which had guessed down to the dollar how far the Central would go to top its offer, is counting on its sound financial position and dividend prospects to impress B. & O. stockholders more than the Central's bait...
Nonetheless, Boston is not all evil, being, at the least, free from the "three great annoyances of Woolves, Rattle-snakes and Musketoes." William Wood divulged this attraction in 1634 as a bait for future settlers. They came: they pushed their cows about to create Boston's streets, and later died, filling an astoundingly large number of graveyards...
...were asking for gallon bottles. Parker finally discovered that its popularity was due to a thirst for education: pregnant mothers were drinking ink in the hope that their children would be born knowing how to write. Other companies have found shoe polish used as face cream, soap as fish bait, hair cream as sandwich spread...