Word: trapped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bulganin called the Eisenhower doctrine "a colonial trap prepared by U.S. monopolies...
...chain reaction for Our Friend the Atom on ABC's Disneyland, Disney moviemakers crowded 200 mousetraps together, each with a pair of pingpong balls poised on its taut spring. When Physicist Heinz Haber, the show's narrator, tossed a single pingpong ball into the arena of massed traps-so that each sprung trap would fire two balls to spring two more traps-the screen erupted into a chaos of snaps, pings and pongs. The mousetraps were the brightest touch in a lucid, hour-long primer, mostly in cartoons, tracing the story of atomic energy from Democritus to Rickover...
...Wall Street crash of '29 wrote an invisible "X" across Kreuger's name. Being an uncommon crook, Kreuger did not crumble on Black Thursday. Indeed, he never defaulted on a dividend; but he was in the trap of paying dividends out of capital. He gambled millions in the market himself, and lost. Outwardly calm but inwardly frantic, he became the master forger of the age when, in 1931. in the inner fastnesses of his regal headquarters at the Match Palace in Stockholm, he forged with his own hand $143 million in Italian government bonds. By now, Kreuger...
...Chicago's shotgun-toting Mrs. Carola Mandel added up her year's bag of clay birds on both skeet and trap ranges, discovered that she is the first woman ever to whip all competitors, male and female, in competitive averages. Mrs. Mandel's scattergun accounted for three world records, including an average of 99.6 for 1,000 targets...
Williams College Professor James Burns has a more elusive fellow to trap in Roosevelt: the Lion and the Fox, and he knows it. Burns wears his objectivity on both sleeves. Though his F.D.R. is not noticeably different from the composite constructed in a score of other books, his book is more vividly told and more sharply dramatized, has risen high on bestseller lists since its publication three months ago. Burns quotes with approval what Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, retired and 92, said of F.D.R.: "A second-class intellect. But a first-class temperament!" Nothing in this biography contradicts the judgment...