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...counties. Aided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the state's wildlife authorities have mobilized more than 100 skilled game wardens armed with traps and poison. Their aim is to clear foxes from "control corridors" twelve to 16 miles wide around the infected area. Favorite bait is crow carcasses laced with strychnine and buried in "dirt holes" where foxes cache surplus food. Most wild animals dislike crow, but foxes have nothing against it. Each poisoned bait will be carefully mapped, and signs to warn humans will be posted around it. Foxes are admittedly wily, but they cannot read...
...economics were shaky but his performance was superb. It ran the gamut-cajoling, coercing, counseling, wheedling, joking, jeering. Enjoying the performance more than anyone was his chief target, Winston Churchill, who sat, fingertips touching with his hands slung between his knees, smiling benignly, occasionally rising to the bait in high good humor. Churchill, roared Bevan, "is not fit for his office." At this point Churchill interrupted to observe smoothly that Bevan was obviously still smarting from Churchill's wartime description of him: "a squalid nuisance...
Many companies have disregarded the "draft-bait" status of graduating seniors, however, and have hired them with an eye towards re-employing them when they leave the service. More than 75 percent of the employed men drafted in World War II returned to their jobs, statistics show, and companies keep a sharp eye out for future talent on a long range basis...
...moral purpose to save itself, could not make up its mind to ratify the Pleven (European army) plan, which the French themselves originated. The Benelux countries talked of pulling out of the European army: if Britain wouldn't join, if the French would neither fish nor cut bait, they wanted to return to the old system of nations individually contributing divisions to SHAPE...
Unable to get a hearing from the impresario, Pianist June Allyson schemes to catch his ear by crashing a children's audition as a 13-year-old, baring her dental braces in a demure smile. Johnson rises to the bait, rushes to her apartment the next morning with a fat contract guaranteeing a Manhattan debut. Posing as her own big sister, June tries to talk him into signing her up instead, but he scorns her as a selfish chiseler. At Johnson's insistence, 13-year-old June goes into training-teeth braces andall-at his country home...