Word: baits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...change they saw. Before, in the old Harvard, one sat down to dinner, printed menu in hand, and waited for the attentions of a water a waiter. After, in the new College, lines formed in front of steam tables, where dinner was dished out service-style. "Fish or cut bait," a dean told Anton Myrer '47 upon his return. "We've got no time for that prewar folderol 'Fish or cut bait'. There were double-decker banks in the houses, chow lines, both lines at the Coop". The new Harvard bore only occasional resemblance to the old, great professors still...
...been built about halfway up a tree, with a crude bench and an aperture for shooting. All was still. Only Brezhnev's voice could be heard, whispering hunting tales: of his courage when a boar once attacked his jeep; of the bison that stuffed itself with the bait laid out for other animals and then fell contentedly asleep on the steps of the hunting stand, trapping Soviet Defense Minister Marshal Rodion Malinovski in the tower above until a search party rescued...
...from his office door. Slow-spoken and ruminative, with an open face and piercing eyes, Clark amiably acknowledges his limitations, but underplays his ambitions. He has proved an adept student of the protocols of Washington. Asked last week about his lack of credentials, he refused to take the bait. His answer: "I have left that determination to the man who made the decision, namely the President of the United States...
Optimistic about the prospects of getting its own building, Biochemistry even used the structure as bait to attract faculty. Jack L. Strominger, professor of Biochemistry since 1968, recalls that the building "was held out as an incentive...
...junior faculty members who have been denied tenure at their universities. And finally, nearly all of the corporations are trying to attract faculty consultants at the forefront of their fields, who will be able to set up labs and direct research activity on a long-term basis. As bonus bait they offer stocks--worth little now but potentially valued in the millions if the venture succeeds...