Word: trapping
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...vanishing Americana is cause for nostalgia. Consider the speed trap, that once ubiquitous feature of Crossroads, U.S.A., now largely and mercifully extinct, the victim of interstate highways and perhaps even some slight evolution in civic if not human nature. One malignant exception to progress, however, is the southeastern Georgia town of Ludowici. Named after an immigrant German roofing-tile manufacturer who built a factory there at the turn of the century, it is one of the last remaining speed traps in the country. TIME Correspondent Joseph Kane drove slowly into Ludowici and sent back this report...
Suspicion. The committee's decision was both tactical and practical. Mills recognized that welfare systems throughout the country are on the brink of collapse and need more than simple repairs. Also, he was caught off guard by the Nixon message, and suspected a political trap. When HEW Secretary Robert Finch began attacking the Ways and Means Committee in public statements for delaying the welfare bill, Mills came to believe that the Administration, with an eye to this year's congressional and gubernatorial elections, was more interested in a campaign issue than welfare reform. Mills thought that Nixon would...
...graders had filled a bulletin board with a photo exhibit of Vietnamese children. A few pictures showed kids staring blankly at the camera, their flesh grotesquely disfigured by Dow's napalm, but most of the shots were of boys and girls dancing in a circle, making pungi sticks to trap U.S. soldiers, or working in the rice-fields. On top of the pictures was a strip of paper with the words, "Children are born to be happy...
...Messiah takes up the story after the end of the jihad-holy war-which has made Paul the emperor and the deity of the known universe. As his empire grew, his psychic powers have grown, until he is forced to rely on them totally. But total prescience is a trap-it removes him from his sources of strength and turns his allies into tools...
...contradiction in terms. In the neon wilderness, blue-haired ladies pull on the one-armed bandits as if they were lifelines; at the card and crap tables, aggressive customers line up like lambs for the fleecing. Like a Vegas concession, The Only Game in Town is a tempting trap. The odds look attractive: Elizabeth Taylor back at her fighting weight, Warren Beatty in his first film since Bonnie and Clyde, both directed by George Stevens (Shane, Giant). But the result is as empty as a croupier's spiel...