Word: baits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...anyone in the nation's newsrooms stopped to wonder whether U.S. journalists weren't seizing the bait in a colossal, sinister trap, their voices were lost in the din. The feeding frenzy had begun...
...houses, the bait shops and car lots of Baltimore's back streets, jobs are identities; unemployment strips souls down to their working parts. Among the city's new office buildings, Red views another America that "had been pushing me and my friends all along, and we had been so caught up in just staying alive, that we had never once pushed back...
...tenderness that develops between Lauren and a client, an English lord who carries some diplomatic post. But the sense of imminent doom that hovers over the narrative is finally realized when it turns out that the people who set Lauren up with Lord Bullbeck wanted to use her as bait to trap the man. Theroux concludes the story with a rush of abductions, escapes, and assassinations more confusing than exciting...
...cast in three of her wacky videos; b) tireless, until very recently, in her pursuit of media exposure (appearances during the past six months have included telethons and Dr. Ruth Westheimer's TV sex-advice show); and c) a wrestling fan, who has shown up at ringside to bait her sometime buddy, Captain Lou Albano, with a rush of feminist banter and a fan's hortatory impertinence...
...conservative paper The Leader with the headline JIM HUNT IS SISSY, PRISSY, GIRLISH AND EFFEMINATE. Helms repudiated the article, which went on to claim that Hunt had a homosexual lover, but his aides still refer to opposition staffers as "queers". Further, Helms has used their television debates to bait Hunt about his leadership qualities and toughness under pressure--circling around the touchy issue that has plagued both Walter Mondale and George Bush-manhood...