Word: trapped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...broken promise plainly indicated that the amnesty was conceived from the beginning as a trap. Having failed to catch bigger game, it was sprung on Carlos Arcaya, presumably to wring from him information about other exiles...
...parts available in a regular Daytona Dodge agency, Danny prepared his D-500-1 himself. The result was truly a stock car, tuned for the last ounce of performance, but not tricked up. A man could buy the duplicate anywhere Dodges are sold. When Danny skittered into the speed trap, his deep-treaded stockroom tires bounced over the ridged wet sand at an average speed of 130.577 m.p.h. His nearest competitor in the class: a 1956 Mercury, clocked at 124.503 m.p.h...
...Tender Trap. During the 1952 campaign, Lausche went on the road with a group of touring Democratic candidates. In Oxford, Hamilton and Middletown, he failed conspicuously to mention his platform companions a single time. On the way to the final meeting in Dayton, a freshman candidate for Congress sat next to Lausche in his car. "Governor," he said, "I'm new to politics, running for the first time. But it seems amazing to me the way you've been talking. I thought we were all in this together...
...will do nothing to reach the goal," he says. "The honor doesn't come from one's desire to attain it. A man should not seek office." A politically wise friend sees the Lausche strategy in another light. The governor, he thinks, has laid a tender trap. "He's a little like the bachelor who has made peace with the opposite sex. He's not going to send a dozen roses, or a 5-lb. box of candy, or buy box seats at the opera. He has decided that the only thing to do is just...
Last week, in a Pretoria prison, the gallows trap was sprung and Elifasi Msomi went to his maker. "I am satisfied," nodded Chief Manzo Iwandla, one of nine Zulus watching. "Tikoloshe did not save...