Word: snared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Quonset huts already bought, snare more Army barracks...
Liberalism, as an attitude of mind, goes back at least to Periclean Athens. Liberalism, as a political philosophy, is scarcely 100 years old. It is practically impossible to snare it in a neat net of definition. But its manifestations are everywhere. Its vigor, says Author Orton, is proved by the roster of its raging enemies. Among them he lists: Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, Pope Pius IX, Professor Harold Laski. "Dogmatists and determinists of the red or the black, defenders of the tyranny of men or majorities, exponents of class war, racial war, or national war, have discovered beneath their differences...
...Since the Navy's wartime policy of giving promotions has been anything but liberal or attractive, it looks to me as though they had better do something concrete about their postwar plans pretty soon if they expect to snare any sizable number of their present personnel for postwar duty...
...Pelleas and Melisande, Hansel in Hansel und Gretel, set off her charms to best advantage. Photographs of Maggie Teyte in knickers and sleek satin gowns with gold slippers were treasured items in the dens of U.S. dudes. Women crowded counters for "Maggie Teyte Perfume." But when she failed to snare a Metropolitan contract, Maggie Teyte shrewdly decided that her clear-toned, brilliantly controlled voice was better suited to chamber singing than to opera...
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...