Word: trapped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Therefore, we should not fall into a Communist trap and refuse indefinitely any diplomatic recognition of Communist China. Eventual recognition (which does not mean moral approval) will be an essential step in any effort to support the American position in China. To withhold recognition, beyond the time when our State Department is able to work it out, would be to sell out our business firms trading with China, to desert the 1500 American missionaries still in the field, to surrender a century's investment of good will, and so play into Russia's hands. John K. Fairbank Professor of History
...University police security measures cannot be divulged, because that would spoil their objective, but if invaders from other universities want to get caught in our trap, let them try anything." Chief Alvin R. Randall asserted yesterday...
...first big chance came when Sears, Roebuck & Co. hired him in 1934 to dress up its Coldspot refrigerator, an ugly machine with a dust trap under its spindly legs, and corrugated shelves inside. Loewy moved the motor, from top to bottom, chopped off the legs, and installed the first non-rusting aluminum shelves ever to be used in a refrigerator. The Coldspot became a single smooth, gleaming unit of functional simplicity-and with it Sears' sales shot up five-fold by 1936. Loewy had been paid only $2,500 for the job (and had spent nearly three times that...
After a disappointing start against Pennsylvania, the Indians came back to wallop Holy Cross and Colgate, primarily on the strength of Clayton's passing and some well executed trap plays and off tackle slants. Dartmouth's great weapon against Harvard last year, however, was its outside game...
Last Gasp. In Loving, the first Henry Green novel to be published in the U.S. and perhaps the best of his seven, readers will see for themselves just what the "rudimentary" trap of blended yearning, lust, selfishness and self-sacrifice, i.e., love, looks like in the hands of an experienced man with a musical ear, an impressionist painter's eye, and a poet's obsession with life's hidden undercurrents and emotional mysteries...