Word: baits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...five years the Bridgeport, Conn., city government and police force had been under extensive federal investigation. Apparently frustrated by the lack of results, the FBI decided to try an old-fashioned sting. The bait was Thomas Marra Jr., 28, a convicted car thief awaiting sentencing. Marra's father and uncle held a $100,000-a-year contract from Bridgeport to tow stolen cars-or did until last May, when motorists complained that equipment had been pilfered from the recovered autos. The FBI plan: Marra would offer Police Superintendent Joseph Walsh $30,000 to reinstate the contract. Walsh agreed...
...that bind the will. When he steals Dona Elvira (Frances Conroy) from the convent to be his wife and then abandons her, he mocks vows made to God and to fidelity. He protests undying love and proffers marriage to two peasant girls (Kristine Nielsen and Hillary Bailey) merely as bait for the gullible. He mocks his fellow aristocrats by tripping them up in the niceties of codes of honor, and his aged father (John E. Straub) by an icy disdain for filial piety...
...Department of the Interior, meanwhile, has been experimenting with more specific anticoyote tactics. In one method, sheep are outfitted with a poison-filled collar; if a coyote takes a bite, it soon bites the dust. Another device, the so-called M-44, involves a spring-loaded tube covered with bait and planted in the ground. When a coyote begins tugging at the bait, the device fires a lethal dose of cyanide into its mouth. In an attempt at aversion therapy, Government-funded scientists have even scattered chunks of lamb meat dosed with an emetic. Any coyote who samples the stuff...
...media and the businesses that support it have made the exploitation of women perhaps the most widespread and most ineradicable example. And a whole industry of pornographers takes the principle of tantalizing advertising to its logical conclusion: where an ad will use the bodies of women as bait to sell an unrelated product, a porn magazine trades directly in the female form itself. Once that form becomes an object to merchandise, it follows naturally that the promoters will seek ever more extreme ways to present the object: from titillation to abuse, from abuse to rape...
...contretemps with a rival fan at the finals was equally mindless. The L.S.U. follower walked up to Knight in a hotel bar and congratulated the coach on his victory. Knight, evidently taking personally the traditional L.S.U. chant Tiger Bait! Tiger Bait!, responded sharply: "We weren't tiger bait after all, were we?" The fan shouted an obscenity; Knight dared him to repeat it. When he did, the coach slammed him into the wall. Unrepentant, Knight declared proudly the following day that he would do it again...