Word: deathtrap
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...only suggests that it be mixed with powdered sand. This "death sand" (containing .05% of radioactive material) would be applied at a rate of 12 milligrams (1/2500 oz.) per square meter and would be entirely invisible. Less than a ton of death sand, evenly distributed, would make Manhattan a deathtrap...
...Centralia No. 5. Neither was it Robert M. Medill, the cynical, hard-drinking director of the Illinois Department of Mines and Minerals. Medill had sought political contributions from mine owners. He had refused to listen to an inspector who had pleaded that the Centralia mine be closed as a deathtrap. Medill resigned in a hurry-but Lewis showed no interest in him. He was after bigger game...
...recent U.S.-British conference on refugees at Bermuda, were jointly irked by a three-quarter-page ad in the New York Times last week in which the vociferous Committee for a Jewish Army of Stateless and Palestinian Jews screamed that TO 5,000,000 JEWS IN THE NAZI DEATHTRAP BERMUDA WAS A "CRUEL MOCKERY...
Strafer understood desert warfare. He was one of Auchinleck's pillars. Strafer almost understood the desert. Once he observed in his deceptively soft voice: "To him who knows it, the desert can be a fortress; to him who does not, it can be a deathtrap." From London last week came a report that enemy planes had attacked his plane, shot him down. In the skies over the desert the trap had closed on Strafer Gott...
...city is itself a super-deathtrap. Big cities, and especially capital cities, are the index of a defender's ferocity. Madrid showed for 30 months that the Loyalists meant business. Warsaw was Poland's small core of guts. Oslo was the keyhole of Norway, and in it the key turned pretty easily. Paris fell without a whimper, and so, soon afterward, did France. The Germans threatened last week, 32 weeks after Yugoslavia was supposedly licked, to flatten Belgrade. Of all the capitals, Moscow looms as the most formidable...