Word: trapping
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...moment in a low voice and returned to the table. In the candlelight the lines on his youthful face-he is 44 - had sagged. He stared at his rice bowl, then explained quietly that he had just had word of a radio message from his friend General Huang. "The trap is closing," said Li. "He must have help soon. We must reach him in two days...
Complaints of "fire trap" conditions at the Radcliffe dormitory at 20 Walker St., were yesterday laid before the Annex Council by Betty K. Heaton '51. Miss Heaton on behalf of 28 residents, asked the Council to intervene...
...troubled with the housing problem." By last week it had become apparent that re-election wasn't going to solve the problem, even for Harry Truman. An engineering survey of the 150-year-old White House showed that it was little better than a fire trap, so weakened by age and by stresses set up as a result of haphazard patching and alteration that it could not be made safe without major repairs...
Down on the field, the bands were finishing their pre-game numbers, but Madar wasn't listening. He was jotting down the things he wanted to look for: Who does the passing? Do they trap or double-team? Which side do they hit most? Do their ends rush or drop back? "When you're scouting," Madar explains, "you look at a game from the cold, business-like angle, not from the spectator's viewpoint...
...right to hit a bill collector with a broom. Said the judge: "A woman's home is her castle, and she doesn't have to have anyone in it she doesn't want." ¶In San Francisco, Patrick James Fleming, 23, an ex-convict, discovered a trap door in the men's room leading to a false ceiling over the Bond Bar. He holed up every night before closing, emerged after hours to help himself to liquor and sandwiches, was not discovered until 30 days later when a customer noticed whiskey leaking through the ceiling. Said...