Word: trapped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...implacable man. With the zeal of the godly he went to work. Hour after hour, for twelve days, his Eighth Army had surged against every foot of Rommel's defense, pummeling the Axis Army with artillery and aircraft, clawing a way forward through barbed wire, minefield and booby trap...
Braving possible floods and blizzards, students tonight will turn out for the pre-game rally of the year when they parade through Cambridge streets spurring the football team on to trap the Brown Bears tomorrow...
Said Dr. Walter H. Judd, eight years a medical missionary in China: "American fighting men are caught like rats in a trap in the Solomons because of stupidity on the part of our high command...
...World are mentally on all fours. Those who struggle into an erect position are mercilessly beaten over the head by a pixillated fate until they squat. Within the prison of life, says Thurber, are "smaller prisons" erected by bureaucrats. In them, man is caught "like a mouse in a trap in Sing Sing...
...dying man in a Manhattan revival of Sar-dou's Fedora turns out to be very dead indeed when the curtain goes down. Psychiatrist-detective Basil Willing, working on tenuous clues and a wide knowledge of abnormal psychology, finally snares a persistent and excellently hidden criminal in a trap that almost ends the doctor's own career. Credible stage atmosphere and an airtight plot...