Word: trappings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...swanky Spring Mill course eight years ago. On the final hole, with golf's greatest prize-the U.S. Open -all but won, Sammy swung at the ball. There was a cloud of sand but he had missed the ball; it rolled feebly to the edge of a sand trap. Sammy swung again. The ball plunked to the edge of a trap on the opposite side of the green. To cap his rout, he missed a one-foot putt...
...Eigruber, once Gauleiter of Upper Austria. "I consider it ... an honor," he snarled as the hood was placed over his head, "to be tried and hanged by the most inhuman of all victors." Anton Kaufmann was less resigned. Snapping the cords about his wrists as he plunged through the trap, he grasped the rope above his head. Kicking & squirming, he fought for 18 minutes before he died...
Billy the Kid. That is life in the "upholstered trap" fashioned for himself by William Samuel Rosenberg, born in 1899 on a kitchen table on Manhattan's Lower East Side. His father was a peddler who would rather have been a poet. "When people were doing passementerie," says Billy, "he was in fringe." On the fringe is where the Rosenbergs lived. They never held on to a set of rooms for long; it was cheaper to move (to The Bronx or to Brooklyn) than pay the rent...
...gentleman. He shares lodgings with a rickety, charming young man named Herbert Pocket (Alec Guinness),and learns, instead, to be a snob. As he helps his old criminal friend to escape arrest and rescues Miss Havisham's ward, the beautiful Estella (Valerie Hobson), from a psychological trap, the noble and weaker sides of Pip's nature so con-.tend that he emerges a true...
Midwife in Boots. The Molotov note was a victory for chunky, trap-jawed John Hodge, who had won at Guadalcanal and Okinawa victories more suited to his soldier's temperament. No diplomat, Hodge had made his mistakes in Korea. But what he lacked in subtlety and tact, Hodge made up in tenacity. He grasped the essentials of the Korean problem. Three months ago, he returned to Washington, steamed in & out of offices telling officials that if the Russians would not play ball, then the U.S. must organize its zone of Korea so effectively that, when the occupying armies pulled...