Word: trapped
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...soon realized that he "had walked into a cleverly laid trap" and became an agent for the F.B.I. in order to make up for his mistake...
...sign that Washington was flexing its slack muscles and bracing itself to launch a policy of determent (i.e., a warning of direct punishment, rather than a mere renewal of battle in Korea) as the best means of preventing a Korean truce from becoming a dangerous trap...
...Trap. For 20 days he found nothing to eat at all. His weight went down from 190 Ibs. to 130. "My arms-were sticks, my legs were sticks," he said. "I looked like Mahatma Gandhi." He had twelve cartridges left for his pistol, and he kept them clean and shiny. He was determined, he told Communist Burchett, to use eleven bullets to kill Reds, the last on himself...
Finally he fell in with two Koreans who promised to lead him to safety. But they betrayed him and led him into a trap. When he saw the enemy soldiers, he raised his pistol to fire, but one of his betrayers struck down his hand. He was so weak that he was soon overpowered...
...again he foiled B.C. breakaways, besides blocking many difficult screen shots. Those three third period scores came: one, after a wild goal mouth scramble; two, after two Crimson men bumped each other out of the play, leaving Corning to face three Eagles alone; and three, after Corning had been trap- ped and pinned outside the crease, while Captain Dusty Burke tried unsuccessfully to hold off the Eagle drive...