Word: baits
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...revelation that Materazzi had, instead, got Zidane's goat with the kind of insults commonly used in sandlots, playgrounds and professional arenas around the world to bait rivals will doubtless strike many observers as undeserving of the Frenchman's dramatic, self-defeating reaction - especially at such a crucial time for his team and soon-to-be-terminated career. Especially given Zidane's comments earlier in the interview acknowledging neither he nor his teammates had experienced any problems with the Italians or Materazzi prior to the exchange that ended with Zizou's expulsion...
Angela Hult of Portland, Ore., cherishes girlhood memories of peacefully trolling on Puget Sound, while her father would bait her hook and tell her stories of his boyhood. Now 38 and a community-relations director, Hult spotted an opportunity to share that kind of time with him again. At 70, her dad Jim Hajek was lamenting that his old fishing pals were gone or infirm and that his back pain kept him from making the rugged trips he used to enjoy. He leaped at Angela's offer to fish together at the Salmon Falls Resort in Ketchikan, Alaska. She picked...
...York City tabloid called you "cruel" on its front page yesterday. And Senator Clinton took the bait and called your book "vicious." How does the outrage created by this book compare to your four others...
...view that some moral decisions, like the choice to have a first-trimester abortion, should be left to the individual, not the cops. Ann Coulter, with her usual subtlety, simply calls her political opponents "godless," the title of her new book. And the largely nonreligious media have taken the bait. The "Christian" vote has become shorthand in journalism for the Republican base...
Harvard’s “alcohol czar,” Ryan M. Travia, is head of an initiative seeking to reduce binge drinking, so the bait used to lure students to his talk at Leverett House might have seemed surprising: booze. Travia, director of Harvard’s Office of Alcohol and Other Drug Services, staged a question and answer session on drinking in the Leverett Senior Common Room last night, underlining his frank and pragmatic approach to undergraduate alcohol use. “We are not prohibitionist by any stretch of the imagination,” said...