Word: trappings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That led to her long-term Disney contract-and Pollyanna, The Parent Trap, The Castaways, Summer Magic, The Moon Spinners and That Darn Cat. "Even though the stories weren't very real and the characters were essentially cardboard," she says, "I was learning the mechanics of my craft, and had a chance to indulge myself." But not too much. "If I got good notices for something," she recalls, "my family just said, That's very nice, dear. Now go and make your...
About 1,000 Communists swarmed just as suddenly over a company of the U.S. 4th Infantry Division near the Ia Drang Valley 40 miles to the south. The fight began after a cluster of NVA troopers decoyed the Americans into a trap two miles from the Cambodian border. The North Vietnamese concentrated on one platoon at a time and succeeded in cutting off each in succession. The American company commander fell in the first minutes of the battle. The fighting was at such close quarters that one U.S. squad leader strangled a Communist soldier with his bare hands and plunged...
...continuation of the class struggle. The mighty spill the blood of the lowly in a kind of cruel game, a black farce. It is a question whether Ustinov's lines supply comic relief or comic sabotage to his theme. Says a general: "I sense a trap." Replies an archbishop: "That's unusual for a military...
...ordeals are still not over. In the U.S. military hospital in Guam, nothing could convince him that the war was over-or that the Americans were not somehow rigging a trap to kill him. Repatriated to his village in Japan, where his father had erected a monument, Masashi found it impossible to shake off the instincts of the hunted animal. Every sound in the night awakens him in panic. "I understand well enough that there's not the slightest element of danger," Itō writes, "but my senses won't acknowledge this conclusion. Once it has taken hold...
...which would tie his match. The Deerfield grad stepped up and sent the ball in the hole to set up a repeat of the varsity contest, where the seventh match similarly went into overtime. This time, on the first extra hole, Vary hit his second shot into a trap and bogeyed, while his Yalie foe parred for the victory, a disheartening one for the Crimson...