Word: baits
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last year, when President Eisenhower offered food to the hungry citizens of East Germany, his offer was rebuffed by Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov as "provocative and insulting" and "bait for agents." Undismayed, the President repeated the offer last month, after the disastrous floods in Central Europe (TIME, July 26). Last week he got a surprising answer. In a formal note, handed to U.S. High Commissioner James Conant, East German Premier Otto Grotewohl not only accepted the offer but thanked the President. Bewildered East Germans were informed of the U.S.'s "friendly gesture" in the Communist press and radio...
...mainspring of the action is a murder. A leader of the opposition to a brutal labor czar is cut down before he can testify against the tyrant (Lee J. Cobb). The Orestean hero (Marlon Brando), an ex-pug who has-not quite unwittingly-served as bait in the murder trap, is pursued by the Furies of remorse in the singularly amiable form of the dead man's sister (Eva Marie Saint) and in the sterner shape of a waterfront priest (Karl Maiden...
There was considerable evidence last week that the seduction is getting results, and that West German practitioners are moving across to East Germany at the rate of several hundred a year to work under renewable one-year contracts. The bait: salaries that are fat by current West German standards (up to 5,000 East marks), promises of religious freedom, quick promotions, no restrictions on movement in and out of East Germany. Especially good doctors are not forced into political activities, need not even join the party. The best doctors are promised an extra bourgeois dividend upon their arrival: a free...
Growing Trickle. To many young West German doctors, the bait looks good. In contrast to the East, the Federal Republic of Germany has an increasing surplus of doctors. Of the republic's 69,109 registered physicians, 4,608 have no medical practice at all; they are unemployed, or making their livings in other ways. Pay for interns is low: 240 West marks ($60) a month. Even those with practices or hospital appointments have only limited opportunities. West Germany's currency reform wiped out the savings of many oldsters who were ready to retire, forced them to keep working...
...Bale. The project appealed to them from the start. Both songwriters shy from commonplace situations, and Pajama Game's unconventional pajama-factory setting and management-labor struggle bristled with off-beat possibilities. They liked the idea of a rough, tough chorus, and wrote "fish or cut bait" parts...