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...Negroes will have their heads torn off. If they go through a Jewish neighborhood, half the population will be joining in, and the other half will be falling on the ground flagellating themselves." Selecting the Jew as a scapegoat fills an important psychic need for the black. To bait the Jew is to claim superiority to the Jew?and to identify with a white community that still contains elements of antiSemitism...
...Holdup Bait. Young Eisenhower, who was graduated from West Point the day of the Normandy invasion and who spent his graduation leave in Father's headquarters, has not only pored over the documents but revisited the battlefields. He has interviewed soldiers from both sides and all echelons, from squad leaders up to Field Marshal Montgomery. For the human or Willie-and-Joe side of war, though, the reader will still have to go to the likes of Cornelius Ryan (The Last Battle). Eisenhower earned a master's degree in English from Columbia, while his father was university president...
...which had brought its own metal folding chairs, to sit down-most likely in the hope of producing pictures to be played against the Paris dispute over seating arrangements. After all, if the U.S. would sit down with the Viet Cong, why should not Saigon? The Americans declined the bait and remained standing, and the Viet Cong then refused to sit down as well...
...meeting over to their side, by reminding them of other possible costs. Cooke writes, $3.000, it was suddenly discovered, looked like a bargain. So they voted it, in theory to preserve the "old wooden covered bridge," in fact as an insurance premium against damage suits and as a bait to hook the nibbling "historical element." In a way, the passage describes not the preservation of a covered bridge, but rather the preservation of a far rarer ristorical specimen: a center of Yankee parsimony...
...Tempting Bait. Equitable, also headed by Wellman, and Mission need more capital, but neither is large enough to raise it easily. Thus they can use the aid of the Lytton holding company, which, thanks to its listing on the New York Stock Exchange, has readier access to Wall Street money. Even so, Wellman had to offer investors some tempting bait. They will pay substantially less than the current market price for the Lytton stock, which closed last week at $11.50 a share...