Word: trapped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Downtown, the President observed the proceedings with interest. Last July his $870,000,000 Spend-Lend bill was killed by this same House on grounds of economy, and he was loudly assailed as a wastrel and profligate. Warily Mr. Roosevelt prepared a trap last week. The bait: Relief. One morning Secretary Steve Early announced that the President would soon send up his spring Relief message, expected to forecast a $1,000,000,000 appropriation for the fiscal year...
...Ways he finds an almost ideal character for his talents: the last fugitive priest in a hypothetical Red-ruled Mexico. Small, shabby, bad-toothed, alternately disguised as tramp or peon, he cunningly eludes a fanatic young police lieutenant, ditches a burrlike stool pigeon, at last walks deliberately into a trap when he is summoned to hear the confession of a dying gringo bandit...
...Luhan, whose laconic realism appealed to her. ("What is your religion," asked Mabel. "Life," said Tony.) Rhapsodizing over sagebrush, Mabel then declared: "The rumble of New York came back to me like the impotent and despairing protest of a race that has gone wrong and is caught in a trap...
...Friday, Sept. 6, 1872, Sheriff Grover Cleveland hanged matricidal Patrick Morrissey, 29. One of the sheriff's deputies braced himself with brandy, offered to spring the trap. "No," said Grover Cleveland, "I have to do it myself. I am the sheriff and that's part of the sheriff's duties...
...know the issue; it is to be or not to be. But we also know that Germany will live. For England is already blockaded. The country that wants to starve us is itself shut up like a mouse in a trap. We want to be hard in this war. We are going to forget the arch-evil, our good nature, and will be hard and relentless in battling for our demands...