Word: trapped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this is simply turning round on a wheel!" says Osokin. "It is a trap...
Maverick in a Trap. Last week, 250 students organized a torchlight parade, marched to Professor Pancho's house to say goodbye. The university's respected Historian Walter Prescott Webb called upon Painter to rehire Dobie. "The truth of the matter," said he, "is that Mr. Dobie has walked with stubborn unconcern into a trap...
...attempt to reveal the frustration of an escaped convict unable to trap the killer who has framed him becomes lost in a maze of bewildering side issues and incredible coincidences. Taxi drivers, plastic surgeons, small time grifters, and Lauren Bacall flit through the story in a circus parade of confusion that subordinates the basic theme to the point of obscurity. There seems no attempt to produce a graceful transition from seene to seene. Each skit drops down out of thin air, rumbles along to its maximum dramatic intensity, and then slowly sinks over the horizon...
George Could Have Done It. Allen's charges against SHAEF and British Field Marshal Montgomery are heated and serious, but military men and plain readers alike will be apt to notice a lack of documentation for Author Allen's conclusions. Says Allen of the Falaise gap: "The trap was set. All that remained was to spring it. ... There was nothing...
...What the Germans could not do, SHAEF did. Third Army was sat down. Patton was ordered not to seize Falaise. . . . The real reason was Montgomery's insistence that he close the gap. He demanded-and got his way-that Patton be halted from springing the trap he had forged. . . . During that time, the bulk of the trapped German armor escaped, to fight again and kill United States and British troops on other battlefields...