Word: trapping
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...Munich, and has a team of agents in place performing round-the-clock surveillance. When an Israeli colleague wonders impatiently why they do not just kill the brother and be done with him, Kurtz replies that "he doesn't lead anywhere." Little brother becomes expendable only when a trap has been set for Khalil...
...reveille I've avoided mentioning: that dangerous, self-indulgent invention, the "snooze alarm." The "snooze" deliberately fools you into thinking you are waking up when you're not. While the idea of "just ten more minutes" doesn't seem all that dangerous on the surface, it's really a trap. Ten more minutes can become ten more minutes and ten more minutes and so on, until lunchtime. The "snooze" is successful when you have nothing to do that day, but want to feel like you've gotten up early. On days like these, you set the alarm...
...Bradley is a behemoth, so wide that it cannot readily fit into the standard C-141 military transport plane; it has to be partially disassembled. Its 5½-in.-thick armor adds some protection, but on the battlefield, critics charge, the vehicle would be a death trap. Its width and excessive height (10 ft.) offer an inviting target to enemy gunners. At times it even has to be a stationary target: the Bradley must come to a complete stop to fire its antitank missile. Its 25-mm gun also has a problem: it is said to be highly inaccurate...
...came after several days of intense debate among senior presidential aides on the best strategy for regaining control of the politically damaging situation. Twice last week the President tried to down-play the problems, blaming the press for exaggerating the story. Said Reagan: "We're falling into that trap of running as if the sky is falling, just on the basis of accusations, without... any substance back of it. The EPA has, in truth, done a fine job." But White House insiders conceded that the Administration was hurting. Said one: "We may have handed the Democrats another good issue...
...sometimes the music is a weapon, and sometimes it is a trap. For centuries, Celts have given themselves battlefield noise and nerve with bagpipes, making the "our song" of the regiment, the tribe, stirring up the blood. The pipes have their wild rhetoric. It may both stiffen and imprison the spirit. Sometimes people cannot escape from their songs. The Irish gift for the instant ballad that glorifies this afternoon's martyr will ruin a human heart and turn children into killers, the heroes of tomorrow's pub songs...