Word: snare
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...Count played a phrase or two on the piano, the rhythm section began to boost the beat while cymbals sizzled in the background. Five saxophones took up the melody, sweetly and a bit hoarsely, and then seven brasses began to clip into it with cross rhythms. Suddenly the snare drum cut loose with the effect of a burp gun, and the whole band leaped into ear-crushing chords and rammed home the climax...
...growing into the well-known adults they have long since become : their habits of twisting each other's arms, catcalling and frolicking make grandma trumpet, "Ha! I like to see the whelps rioting!" New to Jalna is Dilly Warkworth, a charmer from Yorkshire who has come over to snare Renny. New, too, is sinister Mr. Kronk, a rascally stockbroker who finds in brother Eden (the family poet of earlier Jalna books) the very sucker he wants...
State consults Defense closely on another kind of matter, i.e., on the list of areas of the world the U.S. is prepared to defend. This is the old loop (or snare) theory all over again (TIME, Jan. 15, 1951). It assumes that all choice is in the enemy's hands, and that the U.S. can only try to guess where the enemy will strike and try to prepare itself for his thrust...
...Germain-des-Pres or Bloomsbury much of this might be accepted as existentialism. In the stubborn Quaker tradition that distrusts abstractions and relies on ad hoc "leadings," Maurer fights shy of any such cerebral pigeonholes. The very word idea, he holds, has the makings of snare and delusion: "The danger is that one will sit down in the world of ideas and go into a sleep so bewitchingly full of busy fantasy as to make anyone certain that he is clear-mindedly awake. The only chance of staying awake is to take with one into the world of ideas...
...case for color TV before the Federal Communications Commission within three months. He also departed from his prepared address to kick subscription TV in its coin box. Said Sarnoff: "I sincerely believe that pay-as-you-see television on a national basis will prove to be a snare and a delusion." Instead, Sarnoff urged the broadcasters to stay close, as always, to their advertisers...