Word: trapping
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...small group of witnesses looked on, the nooses were slipped over the black-hooded heads of two convicted murderers. The dark-suited little man, known professionally as Mr. Ellis, checked to make sure that the slipknots fitted snugly behind each man's left ear. Then he sprang the trap door and the prisoners plunged downward...
...Jews first thought that the Nazis' coming meant" no more than a switch of anti-Semitic rulers. The book describes their slow wakening to the realities of race murder as the Germans first wall them in, then wipe them out, block by block. At its opening the trapped Jews are living normal city lives; at its close they can take a crying baby from its mother's breast and kill it, for fear of the Germans who are searching for hidden survivors. The book ends, symbolically, with a group of ghetto men, liberated from their trap, meeting...
...Double Blow. Hamburg has everything. Behind the tourist-trap front and the glitter lie wide acres of postwar rubble -physical and economic and spiritual...
...know, one of those square things with a padded top and sides that go right down to the ground. We could carry it out every day and vault over it. One of us would be inside digging while the others vaulted. We'd have a good strong trap [door] and sink it at least a foot below the surface [of the ground]. It's foolproof...
...countryside, carrying messages and giving chase to enemy agents, almost loses his life when he falls for a comely English wench over from London to spy on King Francis (her eyes "expressed a contradiction of emotion: gaiety and daring, with an undercurrent of sadness"). But when the rebel trap is sprung, Blaise bares his steel and redeems himself, shoulder to shoulder with the king...