Word: trappings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...domination of Europe by Russia. He built a sort of substitute State Department in the U.S. Treasury. His influence on U.S. policy was massive, and while he used it, he also passed U.S. secrets to a Communist spy ring. Then, as his very importance began to build a trap around him, he died...
Otherwise the big boys might trap her in a corner 'and beat hell out of her." Later, when I visited this teacher in New York, I found that her students had chopped down all the classroom doors on the first floor. I concluded there was a lot about education that I didn't know...
...elbow, the little darkroom widow waiting at home. He lies on his belly in the snow of the Rockies, prowls the Fulton Fish Market at dawn, gets drenched in an inland lake, and hangs from ladders, chasing-with a hunter's relentless zeal-the fleeting moment, to trap it on the silver-coated strip of paper...
Brownell does not want to go back into that trap. He wants no automatic immu-i nity from prosecution. The witness must refuse and then the congressional committee (or other agency) would put up to the - Attorney General the question of whether : the man's testimony should be compelled by granting him immunity from prosecution on the matter to which he testifies...
...Last week Poland's Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski (pronounced Vishinsky) felt the steel of the trap that has already closed upon Hungary's Cardinal Mindszenty, Yugoslavia's Cardinal Stepinac, Czechoslovakia's Archbishop Beran and China's Cardinal Tien. Secret police searched his house all night; then the government "deposed" him as primate of Poland. The Cardinal was "allowed to retire to a monastery," said the Warsaw radio. But he went with accusations of "anti-state activities" hanging over his head-a broad hint that the next step might be a propaganda trial...