Word: trappings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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East Germany's Communist "sovereignty" will be equally unreal. The East German government, cracked a British Foreign Office man, "will now be completely free to follow the directives it receives from Moscow." Washington called the Soviet maneuver a "sheer façade"; Bonn termed it "a booby trap." Yet for all its patent falseness, the Soviet move was not to be quipped away. In a week when pique and punctilio made a tragicomic opera of Western efforts to enlist West German arms (see below), the Kremlin was boldly reaching out on three fronts-military, diplomatic and psychological...
...their nets before dawn. While three hid, one man walked to a clump .of trees. Loudly he called "Ao! ao! ao!" (Come! come! come!), and began to scatter grain. Rhesus monkeys scrambled down and followed his grain trail. When the monkeys got to the grain in the trap, a hidden operator pulled a cord and meshed them in the netting, an average dozen at a time...
...Carthy's defense. Some held a middle view, as did Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, who, by implication, praised Joe's works while decrying his ways. The bishop's parable: "It may very well be in any home that a man may set a rat trap with Gorgonzola cheese . . . Many in the home are dissatisfied with the Gorgonzola because it smells up the place. They should prefer to see Swiss cheese . . . put into the trap. But let no one confuse a process with a crime, and if the Gorgonzola is smelling up the house, then change the cheese...
This is still the pattern, says Brown, for that part of the human race which is still in the agricultural stage. Only the industrial one-third of the world's population escapes the Malthusian trap. Dr. Brown is not sure that it will escape for long...
...family also puts out Who Knows−And What, Who's Who in Commerce and Industry and several other similar books in which names often go that do not make the parent edition. For imitators who pirate his list for other books, Editor Sammons has devised a neat trap. Under every alphabetical division, he has a "burglar alarm," a fake listing of a nonexistent person with an address that leads right back to Who's Who's door. Pirates trapped last year...