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When I asked for a few tips, John offered to show me the proper way of baiting up on the river. He cupped a lure in his hands and turned his back. I said I couldn't see what he was doing. "Exactly!" he exclaimed. "Neither can the bass. You let one of those Withlacoochee monsters see your bait, and they'll jump up and snap it right put of your hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Magic on the Withlacoochee | 5/3/1971 | See Source »

...important, though unstated task was to draw much larger North Vietnamese forces into massing along the trail so that they could then be hammered by U.S. airpower. For obvious reasons, neither Washington nor Saigon has greatly stressed that a key feature of Lam Son was to use ARVN as bait in order to kill North Vietnamese troops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Was It Worth It? | 3/29/1971 | See Source »

...animals and humans it is fate Either to be victim or the bait...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Brotherhood of Victims | 3/15/1971 | See Source »

...perhaps it's a measure of our frustration and self-hatred at being powerless to end the war, that last Friday night's audience at the Harvard Square Theatre, sitting there in their two-fifty seats and wasting away three or four useless hours, grabbed at the bait. A couple of the more astute even yelling out, "America is doing that in Vietnam!" during Nelson's specially effected massacre...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: FilmsCowboys and Vietnamese | 1/29/1971 | See Source »

...denied diplomatic recognition by most Western nations; and even among its Communist neighbors. East Germany's hard-line views are sometimes ignored. But Party Boss Walter Ulbricht and his lieutenants have some effective ways of getting a response from other countries. One of them: using prisoners as bait...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Ulbricht's Prisoners | 11/9/1970 | See Source »

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