Word: lures
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Deliberately, they wooed the enemy by talking tough. Potsdam provided the lure; the military men spelled out the harsh alternative. Boomed the big brass...
Even the provocation of the bold, unprecedented strikes by Admiral William F. Halsey's Third Fleet against northern Honshu and Hokkaido had failed to lure out the remnants of the Japanese air force. The weather over Hokkaido was foul; the low overcast blocked the efforts of flyers from Vice Admiral John S. McCain's flagship Shangri-La (and her many sister carriers) to find the fields where the Jap planes were supposed to be skulking. Not a single Kamikaze roared over the fleet...
...only in an advisory capacity to his party. The Moslem League's president, Mohamed AH Jinnah, pledged cooperation. But some Indian nationalists sniffed the British plan cautiously. The Bombay Chronicle suspected that the 1,200 Indian political prisoners still in jail were being used as "bait" to lure Congress leaders into acceptance of the proposed Executive Council. But generally it was believed that Britain's offer would not be rejected...
...Cabinet job. But no such offer was made. Old Cactus Jack, 76, is so busy watering his pecan trees, feeding chickens, "striking a blow for liberty" (with bourbon and a little "branch water" from the tap), and resting, that not even an offer of the Secretary of Stateship could lure him back to Washington...
...armed with a number of phonograph recordings of these sounds, the doctors reported that they will soon be ready for the next step: field tests to determine whether the records will "lure the mosquito to some form of destroying mechanism...