Word: trappings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Apparently somebody forgot to square 5,280 in figuring how many square feet there are in a square mile. Fall into that trap, and you convert 500 million feet² to an area the size of Oregon...
...Tile Trap...
...anyone who would come forward in the next three months with facts that would ex plain the mystery of Dr. John's strange exit. But though West German and U.S. intelligence officers still profess to be in doubt whether Dr. John defected or was lured into a trap, German public opinion had hardened into the almost unanimous belief that he defected...
...mainspring of the action is a murder. A leader of the opposition to a brutal labor czar is cut down before he can testify against the tyrant (Lee J. Cobb). The Orestean hero (Marlon Brando), an ex-pug who has-not quite unwittingly-served as bait in the murder trap, is pursued by the Furies of remorse in the singularly amiable form of the dead man's sister (Eva Marie Saint) and in the sterner shape of a waterfront priest (Karl Maiden...
...sighed in gratitude for a respite. Said the Times: "There is cause for deep thankfulness in the news about Indo-China. There cannot be joy." Said the News Chronicle: "You can do something constructive with peace. You can only win a war . . . [But] a war averted can be a trap if it turns out to be only postponed...