Word: trapped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crater, send barbed-wire entanglements up in a spray. Two TNT blocks neatly halved a railroad rail. A homemade mine (an old cartridge box, batteries, scrap iron, wire, string, 6½lb. of TNT) tore the guns from an old World War I tank. A hand grenade and booby trap were manufactured on the spot from the same pick-up materials...
...better for them: pollen (which is a male reproductive spore) is a startlingly rich source of proteins and fats, contains carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals. This discovery was announced last week by James I. Hambleton, chief U.S. apiarist at Beltsville, Md. Apiarist Hambleton and co-workers have invented a trap to collect pollen by the ton: a screen doorstep in front of a beehive, which brushes pollen off the hairy legs of bees and drops it into a box below. As much as 70 lb. of pollen can be gathered each year from a single hive...
...pollen trap also enables apiarists to increase their swarms. In winter bees subsist on stored-up honey and pollen. A beekeeper who carefully gleans bee-dropped pollen, then feeds it back to his swarms in more generous quantities than the bees themselves would store it, will find his insects from 25 to 100% more numerous at winter...
...Soviet troops have smashed one of the strongest German points in the Donets Basin, tearing open a huge gap in the battle line, and another on the north front just south of Staraya Russa, where the 16th German Army of more than 100,000 men lines in a death trap, front dispatches said, today...
...handkerchief with a fistful of sand in it. Besides blankets, extra socks, binoculars, rifles, burnt cork to blacken the face, etc., an important part of the equipment is 25 to 30 yards of fishline. This has many uses: to tie up an enemy, to set off a booby trap. The booby trap is a guerrilla's stock in trade. "You can exercise your schoolboy malice and ingenuity," suggests Mr. Levy. "Hang Mills bombs on doors so that they explode when the doors are opened. Put one in the refrigerator. . . ." In Tillamook, Ore., last week, residents were organizing a Guerrilla...