Word: trapped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...steps (there were 13) to the gallows. With the noose around his neck, he said: "My last wish ... is an understanding between East and West. . . ." All present removed their hats. The executioner tightened the noose. A chaplain standing beside him prayed. The assistant executioner pulled the lever, the trap dropped open with a rumbling noise, and Ribbentrop's hooded figure disappeared. The rope was suddenly taut, and swung back & forth, creaking audibly...
...name, he roared: "You know it well." From the gallows he jeered: "Purim Festival 1946"-and: "The Bolsheviks will hang you one day." As the black hood was placed over his head, his raucous voice could be heard saying: "Adele, my dear wife." At 2:14, the trap swallowed him. Reported Sergeant Woods: ". . . He kicked a little while, but not long...
Recidivist. In Newark, Health Department officials built a trap for disease-bearing pigeons, watched one bird escape four times, dash back to show other birds...
Take Him, Trap Him. The Webbs, of both Tennessee and California, still teach by Old Sawney's terrifying "trapping method," a cross between musical chairs and a spelling bee. Seating his boys in order from ace to dunce, Old Sawney fired questions down the line. Anybody who muffed an answer had to trade places with the boy who got it. Feet on the desk, string tie awry, white-bearded Old Sawney hollered encouragement: "Take him on it, trap him, next-next-next...
...Mary's first important tourney, but because she didn't expect to win she felt little pressure. On the twelfth hole, she was two up. Miss Otto took the next two to square the match. On the next hole, Mary shot a ball out of a trap and it plopped in the cup for a birdie. At the 18th, after more good golf, it was exit Miss Otto...