Word: baits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FORTUNE COOKIE. Director Billy Wilder's latest slap at American mores involves a money-grubbing angler (Walter Matthau) who uses his brother-in-law (Jack Lemmon) as bait to hook a large insurance company and cheat it out of a tax-free...
...true enough, said the psychiatrist, that today's youth are remarkably ostentatious about some of their more intimate activities. "They get to know each other sexually before they become close emotionally or intellectually. In the past, it was the unpopular girl who used sexuality for a bait as a means of competing with her more attractive rivals. Today, even the most attractive and popular girls indulge in a variety of sexual practices with little emotional involvement...
Atop the Johnson library is a projecting lid with a loggia that looks out from a suite reserved for the President himself. Indeed, part of the bait that the University of Texas offered L.B.J., who says that after he leaves the presidency "there is no place I'd rather be than on the campus," was the deanship of a new school of public service to be located in the ancillary building. The lid also contains studies that ring a sunken patio; scholars will descend into the bookstack from above while the public climbs up from below...
...developed lethal poison have been dropped from planes onto rabbit-infested areas of New South Wales, a technique that has effected a 90% kill in some areas. The trouble is that most of Australia's rabbits have proved unwilling to leave their immediate territory to seek out poisoned bait. And since the poison-spreading planes can cover only limited areas, this rabbit reticence has severely limited the effectiveness of the poison campaign...
...chin deposits a distinctive scent that makes his own group feel at home but warns away outsiders. By simulating these scents, the Australians hope to ring pasture lands with odors that will keep marauding rabbits out. False chin trails may lead the unsuspecting animals directly to poisoned bait...