Word: trapped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Teamster James Riddle Hoffa in Washington last March, it looked as if the U.S. Government might have an airtight case against him. Jimmy Hoffa, 44, chairman of the Central States Teamster Conference and most powerful of the International Teamsters Union's vice presidents, had blundered thuddingly into a trap set by the Senate's labor-rackets investigating committee. Committee Counsel Robert F. Kennedy (younger brother of Mas-sachusett's Senator Jack Kennedy) confidently vowed to jump off the Capitol dome if Hoffa wriggled out of the charges brought against him by the federal grand jury: bribery, conspiracy...
...Senate labor-rackets committee and serve as Hoffa's spy during the investigation into the gamy dealings of Teamster President Dave Beck. Counsel Kennedy and Arkansas' Committee Chairman John L. McClellan quickly arranged a job for Cheasty, and he agreed to help catch Hoffa in a trap. During the next few weeks, with FBI agents lurking in the background, Cheasty passed Hoffa a clutch of committee documents, and Hoffa turned over bundles of bills in return. In all, it added up to $3,000. When the agents nabbed him one evening in Washington's Dupont Plaza Hotel...
...alive with birchbark canoes paddled by Disney-employed Sioux, Shawnee and Winnebago Indians. And in Adventureland nearly 3,000,000 people (adults 50?, children 35?) paid more than $1,000,000 last year to sail down a jungle river-most popular of Disneyland's 42 paid attractions-where trap-jawed crocodiles and painted warriors glare menacingly at every turn...
Just before mounting the tribune, Bourgès had whispered to a friend: "If they try to trap me with specifics, I'll just read the speech back to them. If they ask more questions, I'll read it again. You'll see, they'll give up." The only thing remotely new in what he had to say was that he would propose a new "general law" in which pacified areas of Algeria would get increasing autonomy, free elections, Moslem instead of French officials, all leading eventually and vaguely to the abolition of the Government General...
...lost his air power and he could not connect. Raymond Spruance, with Enterprise and Hornet, badgered Japanese surface vessels, sank a cruiser, but he dared not get too close to the outsize guns of the Japanese battle force or the land-based Japanese bombers on Wake Island (a trap Yamamoto hoped to the end that Spruance would fall into). The central fact was that without naval air power Yamamoto had lost the battle, and as early as 0255 on June 5 he put out the famous order-"The Midway Operation is canceled"-that reversed a tide of war that would...