Word: mousetrap
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Well, he wasn't going to. At least, not yet. Indeed, tonight he would take the initiative for once. For years he had promised to take his wife to see The Mousetrap, which had opened in 1952. He had finally managed to get some tickets -she would be glad to see it before it closed. Afterward they would go to that new American restaurant in Soho-it was said to be splendidly successful in recapturing the mood of old England. Life could be worse...
...Sleuth offers; yet its surprises, harking back again to the golden age, are of a singularly artificial and engineered kind. Shaffer is a better writer by yards than, say, Christie; yet Sleuth is finally undone by the same problems as beset those musty standards, Ten Little Indians or The Mousetrap. Such works tease and divert; yet there is always a feeling of having been a little cheated after the curtain falls or the last page is turned. Their stubborn remoteness from reality, which is part of their charm, is also their undoing...
Journalists must be ever mindful of the mousetrap. They must make sure that personal preferences do not lead them into unquestioning acceptance or rejection of a candidate's political views. Last week, mousetrapped by George McGovern, whom he admires, New York Times Columnist Tom Wicker performed a manful act. He chastised McGovern and apologized for allowing himself-and his readers-to be misled...
...miles southwest of An Loc, North Vietnamese surrounded the Cambodian town of Svay Rieng, astride Highway 1, which links Phnom Penh to the South Vietnamese capital. The move could be a diversion, or an effort to open a new infiltration route into South Viet Nam -or a bid to mousetrap the South Vietnamese into another...
Tackles and Tidbits. Occasionally she will use housewifely metaphors to explain gridiron concepts. Her definition of a trap play, for instance, begins: "Short for mousetrap. The defensive tackle (mouse) is lured across the line of scrimmage by the cheese (the quarterback) and the offensive linemen...