Word: trappings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...print the information, but apparently neglected to call the Times and the News, which published the story. Later press and TV carried Mrs. Weinberger's promise that police and ministers had pledged cooperation if the kidnaper would leave the baby in a church; that there would be "no trap...
Newsday decided to set a trap for the bounder. It ran another letter, signed by Staffer Gwen Risedorf, also protesting the shortage of jobs. .When the telephone rang last week in Mrs. Risedorf's home, the caller carried on a lewd conversation, made a date with Reporter Risedorf. When he showed up, the waiting cops pounced, arrested Donald J. Shannon, 33. He promptly pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct. There was only one embarrassing note in Newsday's fine detective work. Shannon turned out to be a Newsday employee-a district circulation manager. He was promptly fired...
...stroke. Then, shooting cautious, slow-motion golf, the man who learned the game at the hide-and-seek age of seven turned on the pressure, played the last 27 holes in even par. On the last hole he was off to the left of the green behind a sand trap after his second shot. Middlecoff puffed on a cigarette for a moment, then chipped deftly. The ball rolled dead two feet from the pin. He holed out with a 281 for 72 holes, then headed for the clubhouse to sweat out the finishes of his challengers...
...simple message an elfin charm, an infectiously wacky humor, and a flavor of childlike sweetness, as if his tales had been stolen from some happily hidden jam pot of life. But of late, the middle-aging (47) pixy of U.S. letters seems to have fallen into the writers' trap Kipling once spotted: "When you know what you can do, do something else." Mama I Love You is a near parody of what Saroyan could once do, and suggests that it is time for Saroyan to shoot Santa...
...short: we must tighten the system. Trap the culprits. Let the student know that the proctor is watching over his shoulder, ready to pounce. Once the student realizes that there is no chance for evil, he will become much more relaxed. Obviously...