Word: trapdoors
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...leader Muqtada al-Sadr--were undignified even by Saddam's standards. As if to block out the barbs, Saddam loudly intoned his final prayer, the traditional Islamic invocation to God and the Prophet Muhammad. But that too was cut short: without warning, the hangman opened the trapdoor beneath his feet, and the tyrant was silenced forever...
...home converted from a 1978 GMC bus that he, his wife and kids had used for their traveling crusade. Andrea and Noah, 4, preferred the bus to the trailer, so Rusty bought it. Noah and John slept in "the hole," a luggage compartment accessible from the cabin through a trapdoor. The 350 sq. ft. of living space would also house Paul, who would be only 17 months old when brother Luke was born...
...Cancer Center with another kind of subversive programming, called a "trap door." The program collected users' passwords as they logged on. No matter how often legitimate users changed their sign-on codes, the hacker was able to gain unauthorized access to the hospital's records by summoning the intervening trapdoor and reading off the newly accumulated list of passwords. The culprit was later apprehended. He pleaded guilty and faced a maximum penalty of six months in jail and a $500 fine...
...house’s real piece of history is its trapdoor, which leads to a small compartment big enough for a few escaped slaves to hide. Though the door is hidden under a bench today, the worn notch used to pry open the hinged section of floor still works...
LYON: It's just another reason that we are value investors. Every time you buy a junky little stock or a pristine one with a 40 [price-earnings ratio] and something goes bad, the trapdoor is infinitely larger...