Word: baits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...magic would seem to lie in the way the trap lures mice to their doom without a particle of cheese or any other bait. The trap is just a little shorter than a shoe box and is made of galvanized sheet metal. The potential victim sees what appears to be a narrow tunnel open at both ends. Curiosity stirs. He enters. In the center of the box he hits a trip concealed in the floor of the tunnel. Whoosh, clatter, and a paddle sweeps the mouse into captivity. The Knesses have made a number of small changes in the original...
Hostile-aggressives. There are three subspecies in this category-"Sherman tanks," "snipers" and "exploders"-and the basic strategy for dealing with all of them is not to rise to the bait. The Shermans are straight-ahead pushy folk known for their jabbing fingers, loud talk and complete knowledge of what is good for their fellow workers. "You have to stand up to him, but don't fight," says Bramson. His advice: look Sherman straight in the eye, call him by name and state your disagreement with defusing phrases such as "in my opinion," and "it's my judgment...
...Drafting women is particularly ironic in view of the fact that the government is not even proferring to us the bait of passing the ERA," Millett said. She said she opposes the draft because she believes "the volunteer army is sufficient." The draft would also perpetuate the inequality of women in the work force by forcing them to assume positions as typists and clerical workers, she added...
...does Buckley, who never offers bait without a barb. Oakes expresses "dismay over the mind-boggling incapacity of Frenchmen to govern themselves." Acheson recalls John Stuart Mill's observation that while Conservatives are not generally stupid, "stupid people are generally Conservative." The Soviet intelligence chief pays the author a compliment by quoting from a National Review article on an assassination attempt that "had all the earmarks of a CIA operation...
...Kennedy wants Carter onstage. We always seem to come back to show business. He wants to bait Carter to see whether he cannot get the President to impale himself fatally on some verbal shaft. Remember Richard Nixon and John Kennedy. Nixon had sweat on his upper lip, and people did not like his looks. Nixon may have lost the 1960 election in a few dismal seconds on the tube. There are a lot of people still around who wonder if that was any way to choose...