Word: trappings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...money-loaded tourists to Hialeah Race Track, just six miles away. In 1955, unhappily aware that all this traffic was racing by-much of it trying to get to the track in time for the daily double-Hialeah Gardens set itself up a whopping new industry: a speed trap...
...would, in effect, force both governments to ratify permanent French control of Algeria. Speaking for Algerians, Tunisians and Moroccans alike, Morocco's semiofficial Al Ahd Al Jadid last week snapped: "The French proposition is an effort to turn attention away from the Algerian drama and to set a trap with the object of consolidating colonialism in North Africa on a new basis...
...workout wheezing like an equine asthmatic. Silky's outraged owners brush off such canards. They admit no more than that their horse is a "roarer," i.e., an animal who clears his ears, nose and throat with a sound like a bull alligator with his tail caught in a trap. They have other health problems on their minds. Each of the two owners is a cardiac case...
Picket. In Ardmore, Okla., State Trooper Paul Clark was waved down by a man at the side of the road who got himself arrested when he stuck his head in the window, warned: "Hey, the highway cops are working a radar trap over the hill...
...being carried away to prison, torture and death without emotion-though it is on record that she once said "Pardon" to a woman friend whom she had just betrayed. The Cat continued her broadcasts to London and because of phony messages sent in her name, the British failed to trap the warships Scharnhorst, Gneisenau and Prinz Eugen; and it was she who informed the Nazis of the approaching British Commando raid on St. Nazaire. Out of a total British raiding force of 353. no less than 212 were killed or missing...