Word: trapped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pelt, none has been available for more than half a century. Lustrous dark brown and noted for their durability and warmth, sea-otter skins were prized by Russian czars even above sable. Chinese mandarins heaped huge rewards on Siberian seamen daring enough to cross the Bering Strait and trap sea otters in the Aleutians. But two centuries of intensive hunting brought the near extinction of the species. By 1912, when Russia, Canada and Japan joined the U.S. in prohibiting further trapping, scarcely 500 sea otters remained...
...airlift brought only a fraction of the promised relief. The city's rubble grew so high that German tanks were unable to roll over it. Through it all, Hitler insisted that his generals stand firm, refusing to allow them to try to break out of the trap and save part of their army. Against his orders, Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus surrendered, and on Feb. 2 the last pockets of resistance collapsed. For three days thereafter, Germans at home heard nothing but mournful commentary and dirges on their radios...
...gold coins into Algeria by stuffing them into the innards of frozen chickens, cleaned out the numbered Geneva bank account of a wealthy Casablanca doctor by posing convincingly as his brother. Posing on another occasion as a heroin pusher, he conned two U.S. Narcotics Bureau agents into laying a trap for him, and slipped the noose with $12,000 in exchange for several bags of what proved to be merely powdered sugar...
Since they are unlikely to find much outside running room against Green Bay's rugged corner linebackers, Dave Robinson and Lee Roy Caffey, the Raiders are expected to concentrate on trap plays up the middle-hoping to catch the Packers' hard-charging defensive linemen out of position. Key man in the success or failure of Oakland's running game is Gene Upshaw, a 6-ft. 5-in., 255-lb. rookie from Texas A. & I. who is already regarded as one of the best running guards in pro ball...
...playback. The cello came on with a rhapsodic, throbbing solo. "Very beautiful," sighed the old man, and tapped Cellist David Soyer approvingly on the knee. Then, a gnarled passage for piano and strings. "No," said the old man, "that's not so good. Here Brahms makes a trap, and we fell in. What shall...