Word: trapped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Still to be found: an economical way to trap nitrogen oxide, which stains the air and still escapes from autos...
...pillory. Barth contrives to blaspheme against, and maybe illuminate, both Judaism and Christianity, as well as the central tenet of 20th century humanism-that all life can be accounted for in terms of reason. In this prodigious, labyrinthine fiction, the reader is constantly baffled and bamboozled by trap doors and intellectual booby traps. Reading Giles Goat-Boy, and debating its meaning, will surely be one of the most bracing literary exercises of 1966 and beyond. It is a satire of major import...
...feel, on security grounds. Going into the jungle, they rarely wear helmets, strip the insignia from their uniforms. The average Viet Cong, they snort, is really "no jungle fighter; he uses trails, paths and villages. We don't. But you have to go out into the jungle to trap him. That's when we meet him on our terms instead...
From the moment of his "arrest" in Argentina by the Israeli body snatchers until the gallows trap in Jerusalem was sprung on him, Eichmann displayed "no room for morality" in his makeup-at least none detectable to Hausner...
...three 13th. After the 14th, with four holes to go, he still had a five-stroke lead. Then, with incredible swiftness, disaster struck. On the par-three, 150-yd. 15th hole, Palmer's No. 7 iron shot strayed off line and caught a yawning sand trap to the right of the green. He bogeyed the hole, and lost two strokes when Casper curled a downhill, 30-ft. putt smack into the center of the cup for a birdie...