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Word: trapped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...team contented with its own performance isn't likely to improve; Harvard hasn't fallen into that trap. Billy Cleary and his players satisfied everyone's expectations but their own this season. And that's a good sign for next year...

Author: By Jim Hershberg, | Title: Icemen: Still a Stride Away | 3/5/1980 | See Source »

...following things are definite this week at the IAB: the cagers (5-7 Ivy) definitely have a chance to finish the season at .500, but not overall (they stand at 10-14). Bob Allen will definitely say goodbye. And this is definitely the last varsity game in the flea trap on Holyoke St. Maybe...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Farewell to the Captain and Maybe to the IAB | 2/29/1980 | See Source »

...would like to know why your cover depicted the paw of the Russian bear caught in a steel trap in Afghanistan [Jan. 28] when it is the U.S. that is behaving like a wounded animal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 18, 1980 | 2/18/1980 | See Source »

...real problem with Cruising is Friedkin's inability to deliver what should have been a brilliant thriller about sex and death. This film muffles a potentially explosive premise. In order to trap a psychopathic murderer who preys on gays, Cop Steve Burns (Al Pacino) adopts a fictive homosexual identity and blends into the rough S-M scene. Gradually he zeroes in on the killer, but not without paying a weird price: Burns begins to lose his real-life grip on heterosexuality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cop-Out in a Dark Demimonde | 2/18/1980 | See Source »

...Eagles' game-long full court trap press did little to bother the Crimson. But without a hot hand from the outside, Harvard could not penetrate the zone of the much taller B.C. squad, and the Crimson watched its errant aerials fall into the waiting arms of Eagle rebounders...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: Sluggish Hoopsters Sleepwalk In Sloppy 74-62 Loss to B.C. | 2/2/1980 | See Source »

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