Word: snare
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just behind the front lines in Korea last weekend, U.S. soldiers were diligently hunting rabbits. With trap and snare they were also trying to catch rats and mice. There was nothing frivolous about this: the soldiers were medical corpsmen, assigned to help run down an enemy which has killed at least 25 of their buddies and made hundreds ill since June: the virus, or something like a virus, that causes epidemic hemorrhagic fever...
...exists on the Tory backbenches, where there are still men who see every Laborite as a bolshevik and every reform as a snare of Satan. Most importantly, it exists among the Tory bosses...
Case History Shocked and shaken by the resignation of President John Edwin Pomfret (TIME, Sept. 24), the faculty of William and Mary last week issued its own report on the college's bubbling athletic scandal. The statement was a bitter case history of a college caught in the snare of a big-time athletic program. Said the faculty...
...vote for the bill, he cried, was a vote for Dean Acheson. India was trying to blackmail the U.S. If it got the loan, it might share it with Russia. If the U.S. fed the Indians, it would soon have to feed "a train of other countries . . What a snare and a delusion . . ." he bawled, "the height of insanity. And it might be well to remember that India has 180 million sacred cows, and God in heaven alone knows how many sacred monkeys . . . All of these will have first claim on ... food ... we send India...
Conductor Richard Burgin reserved the humor for the end, probably quite unwittingly. Anyone familiar with Brahms' superb piano quartet could not help but be wary of a Schoenberg orchestration calling for two flutes, a piccolo, three oboes, five clarinets, four bassoons, full brass, timpani, snare drum, bass drum, eymbals, triangle, tambourine, Glockenspiel, xylophone, and strings. At the very best, these extra instruments were entirely superfluous to Brahms' musical intentions. At the worst, which was most of the time, they sounded like something Richard Strauss would have reconsidered even in his most beery moments. The percussion thumped, whanged, crashed, and tinkled...