Word: mousetrap
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...tried to mousetrap De Gaulle by urging Nationalist China not to break relations with France immedi ately, in the hope of embarrassing De Gaulle by tagging him with a "two-China" label acceptable to neither Peking nor Taipei. This effort failed when a top French spokesman said flatly, "This is not a two-China policy-we recognize Taipei as the government...
Besides comedy characters, Bustelli molded Turks and Chinese, cherubs and beggars, a mushroom venderess and a mousetrap vendor. Together, his figurines make up a cross section of the rococo age. Shortly after Bustelli's death, rococo faded away, leaving an enduring trace in the spirited forms and vibrant colors preserved beneath the glaze of an obscure artist's figurines...
Prayers of Praise. Grass's bizarre title is an invitation to read his book as a restricted fable for two-the cruel cat of collective human conformity endlessly toying with the mouse of an individual's deformity. But Grass has set the jaws of his literary mousetrap much wider than that. Just as a straight chronicle of the sometimes nasty habits and high hopes of boyhood, his story should become a minor classic like Kipling's Stalky & Co., Alain Fournier's romantic pre-World War I The Wanderer, and John Knowles's A Separate Peace...
...television screen who created not a better mousetrap, but a better mouse...
Many of the better designers view the trend with distaste. Concludes Designer Charles Eames: "There is a danger when the better mousetrap is better at catching people than at catching mice. And that's the trap we are finding ourselves in right...