Word: snaring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...maintains a sphinxlike calm when examining his cards on the deal. His manner is similarly detached during the bidding. But his play is marked with barrack-room gusto, particularly when he produces the trump that his opponents have failed to snare, or when he makes his slam or sets his opponents. An old bridge friend says: "The card rises vertically in the President's hand, then describes a 90-degree arc. It hits the table with a thump, upsetting ash trays and opponents...
...George White, a moon-faced Californian of 44, confides in a Turkish floozy, a member of the Sicilian Mafia or a Marseille Chinese that he is in the market for dope, his listeners somehow seem to trust him, and lead him right to the big drug suppliers. Using this snare in two decades of prowling the world from Butte to Bahrein, U.S. Narcotics Agent White has got the evidence that has put thousands of peddlers behind bars. His wartime hitch as a lieutenant colonel in the Office of Strategic Services was no less interesting. At one point he stepped from...
...nine minutes Goodman walloped his bass drum and cymbals, zipped out a few flams, drags, rolls and paradiddles on the snare drum, tinkled the xylophone, banged the triangle and tambourine and rattled the castanets, shook a string of sleighbells in his teeth like a dog and wound up lying exhausted across his timpani. The kids enjoyed it as much as Goodman...
Agathe realizes she is being used, but she has a design of her own-to snare Gilles's brooding young friend Nicolas. And Nicolas, because he worships Gilles, pretends affection for scarecrow Agathe, thus leaving the lovers to each other...
...used to find the aisles of the 'Inferno' strewn with books." There is a small space between the bottom of the stacks and the floor, and it seems that students studying on the fifth level directly below the Cage were inclined to reach up through this crevice, attempting to snare some erotic literature...