Word: trapdoors
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...audience no longer naive about presidential double-talk. Thus when Clinton sat down with Jim Lehrer on Wednesday afternoon and repeated, in heavily lawyered cadences, that "I didn't ask anybody not to tell the truth," reporters pounced on the use of the double negative as another linguistic trapdoor. Try as it would, the White House could not seem to manage a believable denial...
...Gulf averages only around 3 million fish. Indeed, so many snappers are being scooped up as by-catch that the productivity of the fishery has been compromised. Fortunately, there is a solution. Shrimp nets can be outfitted with devices that afford larger animals like snappers and sea turtles a trapdoor escape hatch...
...services that last twice as long as a typical white service. Roosevelt Clossum, minister of the African-American congregation at Mount Olive, says that when he went to give a guest sermon before the whites at Kingshighway, he was warned that if he preached more than an hour, a trapdoor would open under...
...news had industry watchers wondering whether Allen was building a trapdoor beneath his feet. After the huge write-offs earlier this year, better results were expected, and soon. Explaining the disappointing prospects, AT&T reminded analysts that its core business, long-distance phone service, remains under intense pressure from new and old rivals. Even so, says Simon Flannery, an analyst with J.P. Morgan, many investors hoped the second-quarter trouble "was a one-quarter phenomenon and that things would improve. People who bought stock on that hope were probably disappointed and sold it." Which is not to say that...
...last year, he became a "C1-C2"; the designation refers to a paralyzing injury to the area between the first and second cervical vertebrae, between the neck and the brain stem. It's called the "hangman's injury" because the C1-C2 break is what happens when the trapdoor opens and the noose snaps tight. He says, "It was as if I'd been hanged, cut down and sent to rehab...