Word: trapped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Literary Chloroform. But the stags lave yet to be brought to bay. The trouble with attempts to ban them is that most legal definitions of obscenity ineviably trap serious-intentioned publishers and writers in the censor's net. Last month district attorneys from 38 Pennsylvania counties met to "discuss new methods of combatting the obscene literature pouring into the state." but were anable to agree on any fair or workable censorship formula. Even churchmen do not agree that the stag magazines drive children to delinquency. The Rev. Owen McKinley Walton, executive director of Pittsburgh's Council of Churches...
...great power and agility: his naturalness of speech and gesture are mixed with a certain resigned sadness in his eyes, reminiscent of his performances in The Petrified Forest, which make his performance faultless. He deposes the small-minded, big-mouthed garageman, leads the brawny, embittered father into an emotional trap, and shatters the broker's cocksureness with consummate skill. It is an award-winning performance...
...going to be good enough. Doug Ford shot not a single bogey; he had five birdies on his scorecard when he stepped to the 18th tee. His drive was straight, but he found his approach shot buried all but out of sight in a green-protecting trap. Now, if ever, he had an excuse to change his pace, to slow down and study his lie. He knew better. He walked into the sand, barely looked at the ball before he swung his wedge in a vicious arc. The ball soared high, dropped short of the hole, rolled straight into...
...simultaneous effort to remove it even before it is chemically identified. Possible answers to the problem: selection of tobacco strains, extracting the offending substance from the leaves or filtering it out of the smoke. Most of today's filters, says the report, are inefficient and nonselective; they merely trap a little of the smoke...
...fire escapes in the Prospect school are either screened or nailed shut; Middle Street and Pidge schools have no fire escapes at all. Six schools have no sprinkler system. Of the Cottage school the Harvardmen warned: "Any internal fire that would cause the collapse of the wooden staircases could trap children on all floors with no other means of escape...