Word: baits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Travis complains that most people simply do not realize what attracts rats. Rich-smelling fried food left in an empty room is bait. So are dishes in the sink. So is the feeding of dogs, cats, squirrels and birds in the backyard. Among the worst offenders are construction workmen who throw away luncheon leftovers. "There hasn't been a building put up in Washington in 15 years that the rats didn't move into before the people," says Travis. "You have the exterminator working on the first floor by the time they're laying concrete...
...Bottom?," we have not yet got to the bottom of the trouble. You will remember that Quince the Carpenter is the nominal director of the show that the artisans are readying, but that Bottom keeps trying to take over as boss himself. Rising to the bait again, Ritchard insists not only on playing three roles but also on directing the entire production. And he is allowed to have...
...borders, up against its cultural limits at all times. The cost of living on the border is high; you've got to be wealthy, and wealth here is measured in terms of how little you need to live. I do not need the luxuries this country uses to bait its people toward progress. I've learned to despise that word...
...three-ship flotilla for the three-hour cruise to the offshore Farallon Is lands. In the process, the birders had to weather a sickening swell, the pungent aroma of the guano-splattered Farallons and the even more pungent smell of overripe suet, thrown overboard for bait. For their fortitude they were rewarded with such rarities as Brandt's cormorants, tufted puffins, pink-footed shearwaters and a couple of black-footed albatrosses...
...first baseman Bob Welz last year will get their first chance this year to see the Crimson junior on the diamond, this weekend -- at Fenway Park. The lure of money and a professional career pulled Welz away from the Crimson pinstripes into the Detroit organization. And the same bait, in bigger doses, will probably mean that Cambridge sports fans have only two more weeks to watch pitching sensation Ray Peters plying his trade in the college circuit...