Word: baits
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...blown palm trees could be seen swaying against the starry sky of the moonless night. Amador and Iglesias, whom I had been talking to moments earlier in the dark, were suddenly snoring in their hammocks. I sat in the back of pickup truck trying not to smell like vampire bait and hoping I wasn't in charge of the hunt...
...pass from junior Anna McDonald following a faceoff and drove down the left side of the ice. After eluding a pair of Saints defenders, Vaillancourt approached the net, holding onto the puck and patiently waiting for St. Lawrence goalie Brittony Chartier to make a move. Chartier took the bait, lunging and leaving her right side wide open...
...crazy enough that someone can get paid $1 million for catching a fish--the angler who wins the championship tournament on the largest professional bass-fishing circuit in the country takes that awfully sweet bait. But it's certifiably insane that someone else can sit on his or her butt and win a million bucks by predicting (actually, more like guessing) which fisherman will hook the biggest bass...
...Given the market for such pictures, could the paparazzi become a problem for the First Family? Alan Nierob, a publicist whose flashbulb-bait clients include Mel Gibson and Russell Crowe, says he can't imagine one. "There aren't going to be any long-lens shots into the White House," says Nierob. "Hello! There's a Secret Service. It's not like the girls are going to be sitting in traffic while photographers snap away...
...House Minority Leader John Boehner, who tussled with Democrats over the rules governing Congress's use of sites like YouTube and Twitter, saw the Rickroll video as an opportunity to offer some tongue-in-cheek criticism. "This is the same sort of bait-and-switch we see from House Democrats on important policy matters," wrote Boehner spokesman Michael Steel in an E-mail. "They promise something new and different, and then the same old tired, annoying stuff pops up. The American people (and the Speaker's cats) deserve better...