Word: baiting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Kolakowski, an investigator for the Wayne County sheriff's department in Detroit, went online with the screen name Melissa83 about a year ago as bait for pedophiles who, in Detroit as elsewhere, tend to prey on naive, rebellious kids from broken homes. But Melissa is only one of the alter egos Kolakowski has invented. Some days he masquerades online as a teenage boy looking for an assault rifle, or a sports junkie betting on the Wolverines, or an old dude with erectile dysfunction shopping for a quick Viagra...
...gait, bound him to that inner tube even as she fought to stay alive. And even a coroner's description of how Elian's tube trailed behind it the body of 61-year-old Merida Barrios, who had been strangled by one of the raft ropes, and floated, like bait, yards from Elian...
That encounter took place near Hattin, within sight of the Golan Heights. Saladin had assembled a pan-Islamic force of 12,000 cavalry near Lake Tiberias. The Christians were lured on a long July march across Galilee's parched Plain of Lubiya. Saladin had the right bait--he had besieged the lakeside town in which a knight's wife was staying--and the Crusader force, frying in heavy armor and unable to fight its way to the water, was overwhelmed by the Muslims. When the Christian knights retreated to the coastal fortress of Tyre, Saladin turned his army inland. Jerusalem...
...type of success. After coming off an emotional victory in its first Ivy League game against Dartmouth, the Crimson was unable to muster the same type of second-half intensity on Saturday when the Huskies didn't roll over like the Green did. Northeastern seemed to be easier bait, a non-conference team with one win and a losing history against Harvard (Harvard leads the series...
...Anna and the King-imperialism and Ms. Oscar-bait herself starring in a self-proclaimed epic about the "East meeting the West." Sure, the story is recycled, but who cares-it's good for you! The Hurricane tells the also "epic" tale of a boxer's struggle to battle racism and the justice system after being wrongly convicted of murder. Gag. There's more-Bicentennial Man's story of a "robot journeying to be a real man," Ride with the Devil's Civil War extravaganza, The Cider House Rules' lovey-dovey schmaltz, etc. Add in last week's Green Mile...