Word: trapped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...earth's moon is handy, only 238,857 miles away, but its considerable size (2,160 miles diameter) makes it a trap in space. Its gravitational pull is one-sixth as strong as the earth's, which means that unless a spaceship is braked in some way, it will hit the moon's surface at 5,000 m.p.h. Since the moon has no appreciable atmosphere that can be used for braking, the ship will have to cushion its fall by burning precious fuel in its rocket engine. To take off from the moon will cost fuel...
...from foreign trade. Looking for a Republican member of the House Ways and Means Committee to co-sponsor the Administration bill, the White House had to reach past three ardent Republican protectionists-New York's Daniel Reed. Ohio's Thomas Jenkins, Pennsylvania's Richard Simpson-to trap the fourth-ranking Republican, New Jersey's Robert Kean, and he was far from eager...
...Cervi was puzzled," wrote Cervi. "Was the mysterious sender offering $1,000 as a perverse bribe, a gift of gratitude, prelude to a trap to be sprung later or giving vent to honest outrage?" In a P.S. to the sender, Editor Cervi suggested: "If this is a trick, why don't you try us out on a $100,000 note...
...with a wonderfully silly assist from Mickey Rooney, the boys have their ball, and the rat gets caught in his own trap. Disguised as a private, Captain Kovacs races cross-country in an Army truck to break up the party, blissfully unaware that the truck is loaded with German prisoners. When the M.P.s, tipped off by Lemmon, accuse him of engineering an escape, Kovacs blusters and pulls rank. Alas, nobody will believe him, and he is hauled off to the stockade, a broken man who can only point piteously at a big, black, fiercely aggressive mustache that no longer seems...
...Alger Hiss. Bernard Shaw, Conan Doyle, G. K. Chesterton ringingly defended Casement. Others, including Poet Alfred Noyes, equally ringingly denounced him (this year, at 77, Poet Noyes published an emotional book reversing his earlier stand). It may have been a kind of Irish Faust who disappeared through the trap on the gallows of Pentonville Prison. Yet objective readers of Author MacColl's biography must agree that he was truly and justly hanged for treason. For the rest of the long line of Irish martyrs, Roger Casement must make unfortunate if intriguing company...