Word: trapping
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Outside Kruger National Park, South Africa's famed wildlife sanctuary, prowled a white man and his two black servants, looking for lions. Having no rifle, they set a steel trap-against the law-came back next day to find a full-grown lioness caught by the neck, roaring in agony. Not daring to approach her, they squatted to debate while the frantic animal panted. In the evening the white man decided to wait for the lioness to die, then collect the skin. They waited ten days before the shrunken, weakened beast relaxed and the skinning could begin...
...Rome, our Nazi enemies have set the most dangerous booby trap of history...
...spring this trap, so cunningly prepared by the arch-criminals of our times, we shall destroy not only the city of the Popes and capital of Christendom . . . but destroy our own prestige and thereby make a decent peace almost impossible. Countless millions of people in Europe and in South America would turn resolutely from the nation which . . . dared to raze the beloved shrines of the Christian centuries...
...fortnight ago it was relatively quiet along the 500-mile reach of the Ukrainian front. But the peace was deceptive. By night Red scouts wormed their way across No Man's Land. In staff dugouts, officers had charted the position of every German battery, every pillbox and tank trap...
Then they started a hazardous 60-mile run up the fjord, delicately slipping by every known form of trap, net and guard until they reached the inner anchorage...