Word: trapping
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...been hugged by the bear before. The State Department had to be on guard so that a meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers was not used by Russia as a propaganda trap instead of the beginnings of a real peace settlement. It was a risk that was worth taking...
...slime their only foe. As they struggled, huge eagles (Harpagornis) swooped down and tried to pick some meat from the enveloping "aspic." Some of the eagles became mired too, and left their remains (bigger than the great monkey-eating eagle of the Philippines) in Pyramid Valley's death trap...
...Examinations: "The examinations should be less of a bear trap . . . This approach should be positive, not negative. Its purpose should be to probe for knowledge, not to pry for lack...
...Trap. Some organizations are created by the special demands of doing business and producing things in the machine age, e.g., the corporation. Others are caused by man's desire to protect himself against the machine age, e.g., labor unions. To all these, as once to the feudal castles, man owes loyalties...
...motives-as he might join the Nazi or Communist Party in protest against social injustices; once in, the individual has little voice in the organization, which pursues policies of its own, often diametrically opposed to what the individual wanted in the first place. This process, said Golden, "creates a trap." Unless this dilemma can be resolved, the whole fiber of human society is endangered...