Word: trapping
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...Armand in his romantic quest, some of his flunkies bait a tender trap. They transform one of his surplus châteaux into a luxury hotel, designate one room as the Chambre d'Amour, to be rented only to beautiful women under the pretext that the owner of the suite is out of town. Armand's role is to enter the Chambre d'Amour in the night, valise in hand, surprising the sleeping beauty and then gallantly offering to spend the night on the neighboring couch. This bedroom farce promptly nets Armand two discontented wives, whom...
...British made little effort to get a vaccination program going. Only one firm is now making vaccine, and none is yet available. Whatever is produced will go to doctors and nurses. The government pooh-poohs the flu and the Health Ministry offered mostly slogans: "Coughs and sneezes spread diseases-trap the germs in your handkerchief." Jabbed the Daily Herald in reply: "We need some American-style hustle instead of this ministerial sleeping sickness...
...Trap Plants. The witchweed-infested area is now quarantined, and strict measures are taken to keep the pest from spreading. The scientists are none too hopeful. Witchweed seeds are invisible when mixed with soil, and they can be carried by farmers' boots, auto tires, shipments of farm products or almost anything else that moves. Experts shudder to think what would happen if a hurricane were to pick up the seeds and scatter them like smoke. The parasite can probably thrive throughout the South, from Virginia to eastern Texas. It can live on wild grasses, including the common crabgrass...
...witchweed has a weakness: its lurking seeds can be fooled by planting certain crops (e.g., peanuts, soybeans, cowpeas) that induce them to germinate but do not provide the kind of roots that they can live on. In Africa a favorite control measure is planting such trap plants to reduce witchweed infestation, but the U.S. Department of Agriculture has a bolder hope. If it can identify the root secretion that makes the seeds germinate, it may find a cheap chemical that will do the same. Then a field can be treated before planting, and the seeds of the little red flower...
...personnel and press boss at General Electric, Vice President Lemuel R. Boulware, 62, was one of the most controversial labor-relations managers in the history of a new art. A tough, trap-jawed Kentuckian, Boulware was a hard bargainer during contract negotiations and never failed to point out what a company like G.E. did for its employees. Many businessmen considered "Boulwarism" a smart strategy for combating Big Labor, imitated it widely, even though unions bitterly hated...