Word: trapping
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Just last summer three of Brick Kness's grandchildren took over management of the multimillion-dollar corporation that now produces what everybody in Albia, Iowa (pop. 4,000), simply refers to as "the trap." The young Knesses are remarkably similar to their elders. The invention has been handed down from father to son not merely as a business but as a way of life...
Last year the Kness Manufacturing Co. sold 400,000 traps and grossed about $1.5 million at a wholesale average of $3.75 a trap. It was the twelfth straight year that production has increased. While there are not enough zeroes in these figures to dazzle anyone on Wall Street, they are remarkable in Albia. All the more so because the Knesses, defying the collective wisdom of American commerce, neither advertise nor employ salesmen to bring the trap to their customers...
...magic would seem to lie in the way the trap lures mice to their doom without a particle of cheese or any other bait. The trap is just a little shorter than a shoe box and is made of galvanized sheet metal. The potential victim sees what appears to be a narrow tunnel open at both ends. Curiosity stirs. He enters. In the center of the box he hits a trip concealed in the floor of the tunnel. Whoosh, clatter, and a paddle sweeps the mouse into captivity. The Knesses have made a number of small changes in the original...
...candidates went into an anteroom to decide how to proceed. Bush arrived, knowing nothing of this turn of events. As he approached the dais, he was invited to join the others in the anteroom. He declined, pleading the press of time and thinking he might be walking into a trap. When Reagan finally appeared with the other four and argued for a six-man forum, Moderator Jon Breen, editor of the Telegraph, insisted that the format would not be changed...
...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...