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...TIME, July 20, we read: "Author [Bertrand] Russell uses live bait and barbed hooks, tickles out many a specimen of his lifelong enemies in suburbia...
...Jail Bait. In Fairfield, Iowa, Mrs. Effie Fisher, offered the choice of a $50 fine or 15 days in jail for shooting a squirrel in her back yard, packed her suitcase, told reporters: "I hear they have rats in the jail. I wonder if they'll let me take my rifle with...
...president of Contrada's town council, Carmine, a dedicated Monarchist, set himself to bait the sulky showoff, Silvio, an ardent Demo-Christian, at every turn. When Silvio planted cherry trees on the borders of his property, Carmine made him cut them down because they overhung the village highway. When Silvio built himself a tomb in the local churchyard, Carmine complained that its steps were on public property. "Material wealth can never replace brains," he gloated when the steps were ordered removed...
...feeling" of accomplishment. The experience made him skeptical of such highfalutin motives for spelunking as the advancement of scientific knowledge and the development of a nation's natural resources by discovering underground rivers for hydroelectric power. Holes and caves, Tazieff concluded, seduce speleologists with that most tempting of bait, "the lure of the unknown...
...rubber gathered cost a human life." One economical German farmer personally murdered more than 40 Indian slaves in a batch, simply because they were too sick to work. When the Indians murdered a white man, his brother set out some tins of poisoned alcohol in a jungle clearing for bait, and the next day surveyed his catch: 80 dead Indians. Fawcett knew of a sick Englishman who, because he lay still, was assumed by the Indians to be dead; having got this idea in their heads, they decided that his groans were those of his spirit, and buried him alive...