Word: trapped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scientific skin divers were not searching directly for oil. Their long-range purpose was to learn more about "stratagraphic traps." Oil pools are comparatively easy to find by geophysical methods if the oil has accumulated in a "structural trap," where pressure has forced the rock into a domed or up-slanted formation. But some of the biggest pools of oil have been found in masses of porous material, e.g., limestone reefs or sand bars, that were covered ages ago by oil-tight sediments. Such underground treasures (the prodigious East Texas field was one of them) seldom answer clearly when they...
Rabbit soft-foot, pheasant's in trap...
...Eight members of New York's Joint Legislative Committee on Problems of the Aging reported last week that Hollywood is the "archfoe" of the elderly. Reason: movies portray old age as "a trap, a pit, a hopeless end,'' and glorify "teenage super-beauties as the American ideal." Objectionable oldster types, according to State Senator Thomas C. Desmond, 63: Lionel Barrymore (as a cantankerous oldster), Billy Burke (as a rattlebrain). Objectionable youngster types, "the type of youth glorification that makes it difficult for older women to find a useful, happy place in modern life": Lana Turner, Marilyn Monroe...
...entered the White House after a rough presidential campaign in which he made up his mind that the newsmen acted like a bunch of district attorneys who were more concerned to trap him than get information. This he no longer believes. He no longer feels that he has a hostile audience. In short, after a fairly stormy passage during the last year and a half, he has come out into what seems to him to be calmer water. The economic situation at home is improved, peace has been preserved, and the press conference, which used to be a crisis...
Then from somewhere behind the demonstrators, shots rang out. The beleaguered garrison fell into the Communist trap and fired in earnest. "Murderers, murderers!" the survivors screamed as they picked up their dead. Some among the soldiers who had fired, confused and shamed by what they had done, deserted...