Word: trapped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Trap at Night. At Cornell University Medical College, Drs. Mary H. Loveless and William R. Fackler have worked out a painstaking method of trapping bees and wasps by chloroforming them in the nests at night, storing them in a freezer, and performing delicate surgery to remove their venom sacs while they are in a half-frozen stupor. The venom from the sacs is pooled, then injected in small but gradually increasing doses into sensitive subjects. In the New York City area, the doctors found, the most vicious stinger by far is the yellow jacket (Vespula maculifrons, represented elsewhere...
Like fishermen trolling in strange water, atomic physicists send instruments groping through the earth's upper atmosphere to trap whatever happens to come by. Last week scientists at the University of Minnesota reported that they had caught a whopper: a helium nucleus moving a shade slower than the speed of light with a force at least 150,000 times as powerful as the greatest energy produced by man-the 6 billion electron volts whirled out by the University of California's bevatron...
Unfair Warning. In Kalamazoo, Mich., John Carter and a friend were fined $25 each for hobbling orderly law enforcement, after police found that just before a radar check point they had posted signs reading "Speed Trap...
...Quare Fellow, a Manhattan-bound three-act play that won critical applause in London last year, Irish Puppeteer Behan performs a farcical jig on the trap in the Hanging and Flogging wing of a prison remarkably like Dublin's Mountjoy Prison. His "Quare Fellow," who never appears in the play, is one of two men waiting for the public hangman to come from Britain to execute them for murder. One, whom the prisoners call "Silver-top," had beaten his wife to death with a walking stick. The Quare Fellow had killed his brother and, using his skill...
...Snout. Beneath the farcical, Playwright Behan's point is as serious as that of Polemicist Koestler, and even before the action builds to its sickening offstage climax with the drop of the trap and "the screeches and roars of them" in the rest of the prison, it is apparent that playwright and polemicist agree. The prisoners laugh at their keepers, at themselves, even at the Quare Fellow's predicament. In this way, Brendan Behan laughs at the society that thinks that by taking men's lives, it improves itself. At the grave, which they have eagerly...