Word: trapping
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...mayor. A psychopathic killer is on the loose, sniping from rooftops, kidnaping young girls to hold the city up for ransom. Callahan is against the mayor's decision to pay the ransom. When he is appointed to deliver the $200,000, he typically decides to try to trap the killer...
...plays a full-court press and moves into a half-court trap press occasionally. Harvard, with its history of poor ballhandling and turnovers, may have trouble against the Terriers' quick, aggressive guards, Tyrone Scott and Lewis Graham...
Tackles and Tidbits. Occasionally she will use housewifely metaphors to explain gridiron concepts. Her definition of a trap play, for instance, begins: "Short for mousetrap. The defensive tackle (mouse) is lured across the line of scrimmage by the cheese (the quarterback) and the offensive linemen...
Since both teams play the same type of game, bad weather conditions should not give either an advantage. The varsity field was covered with a tarpaulin before Sunday's snowfall, but unless the snow melts the grounds crew will be unable to remove the trap. In that case, the game will be played on the freshman field...
...going to pay some tax in 1971 if I have to invent it." There have been other financial drains, the Governor said. When he and his wife Nancy moved out of the Governor's mansion in 1967 because they thought it was a fire trap, they rented a house for $15,000 a year. "The law says the state has to furnish the Governor a place to live," Reagan told Frost. "But I felt a little self-conscious about having moved out voluntarily, so we paid the rent." Not any more-since July 1, 1970, the state of California...