Word: entrapping
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...happiness boys were leading their more morose brethren by a score of about ten to one. Television Playhouse seemed to be making the changeover gradually: its Merry-Go-Round was about a grimly possessive girl who loses two men before she has enough sense to change her tactics to entrap a third. Studio One briefly dismayed its viewers with Reginald Rose's Three Empty Rooms which dealt with a pair of miserably shy newlyweds, but wound up strongly affirming the solidarity of the human race. The stratosphere of Pollyannic joy was reached by Request Performance, which offered The Mumbys...
...suggested that permitting White to continue his espionage operations might enable the Truman Administration to entrap not only White but the whole Soviet espionage ring working within our Government. To accomplish such an end would require infinite and detailed care if the national interest was to be at all protected...
...plain purpose of these committees is particularly reprehensible: subpoenaing witnesses in order to entrap them by interrogation into the minutest details in the long distant past and not their political beliefs so as to subject them to contempt or perjury indictments. The most notorious example is that of the Internal Security Subcommittee in the Lattimore case...
After sitting up nights wondering how to entrap the clean young lieutenants, ensings, midshipmen, V-12ers and G.I.s running around Cambridge unleashed, Radcliffe girls have finally found the proper snare. The signs all over the Yard saying DAPAROF, they have confessed, is just a cheap publicity gag. "Dance and Play at Radcliffe on Friday," is their new cry. Just to be cute and mysterious they condense it to DAPAROF. Something called the Radcliffe Service Organization ("We are not a USO") is the sponsor...
...hammiest scenes and lines have been left intact, and are played straight. The barkeeper and the gambler leer, sneer, entrap their victims. Joe the drunkard wrestles in agony with the demon rum; his little daughter quavers Father, Dear Father, Come Home With Me Now, and later dies; Joe remorsefully swears off liquor with the old gag, "I'll never drop another drink-I mean drink another drop." The gambler stabs the squire's son, and the barkeeper's son slugs his old man to death with a gin bottle...