Word: trappings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...even London's left-wing New Statesman spotted the Russian trap: "Very well, says Mr. Khrushchev. I have a heavy meal to digest; let us all stop eating until I am hungry again." And even as the Soviets were congratulating themselves on the effectiveness of their "noble gesture" on British public opinion, the steam was visibly going out of Britain's ban-the-H-bomb movement. The noise made by pacifists and leftists who favor nuclear disarmament for Britain continued; last week nearly 4,000 of them, a ragtag army accompanied by skiffle musicians, set forth from Trafalgar...
...baby female platypus puddling in the mud on the bank of the Albert River. The platypus saw Fleay and disappeared into a crevice, but a trap caught her during the night, and Fleay named her Pamela. Three days later he caught a male baby, Paul. Both Pamela and Paul took their captivity with resignation, but Paddy, another male, captured on Feb. 10, protested in a way that worried Fleay, who feared that Paddy might never see The Bronx...
...Traps and trap setters were not even camouflaged. For four weeks three of the committee's Republicans-Arizona's Barry Goldwater, Nebraska's Carl Curtis and South Dakota's Karl Mundt had been leading the committee thorough the bitter history of the U.A.W.'s, fruitless four-year, $10 million strike against Wisconsin's Kohler Co. (TIME, March 17), second largest U.S. plumbing-fixture manufacturer (No. 1; American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corp. , The three Republicans had long since decided the U.A.W. was at fault to their surprise. Walter Reuther was willing to agree halfway. Mass...
...Reuther, who notes that the industry has 900,000 unsold 1958 models, is not eager for any strike at all. Says he: "The effect of a strike would be to deplete those inventories. We are very realistic and practical people, and we are not going to fall into that trap...
...that fine income, Hialeah Gardens was unhappy-and last week it sprang its own trap. A reform ticket, voted in by 72-6, took over the government, with the new mayor, grey-haired Mrs. Hazel Shattock, pledged to abolish the speed trap. Major reason for the change: the people of Hialeah Gardens had seen hardly a penny of the speed-trap collections. Most of the money had gone toward a new jail, the cost of keeping traffic records, and ever-new, always souped-up patrol cars...