Word: trappings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dangerous liquid within the chamber was released as a gas by an ingenious venting system. Pressure on the liquid forced it down into a trap underneath the truncated conical chamber onto a mass of small copper pellets. Heat from the pellets quickly and safely changed the liquid to a gas, which flowed up a chimney, where it was harmlessly ignited...
Unerring Accuracy. "Nobody ever wins the Open," Bobby Jones once said. "Someone always loses it." On the last day Nagle did his best to lose when he double-bogeyed the 15th hole, taking four to get down from a trap off the green. That gave Player a three-stroke lead-which he politely relinquished by three-putting the 16th. After 18, they were all even with a 72-hole total of 282-two over par. Playoff...
...Eurocrats have patiently worked to yoke French economic demands to the larger purposes of Europe, and more often than not have succeeded. Last week, as the ministers of the Six assembled in Brussels, E.E.C. President Walter Hallstein and his technicians were convinced that they had laid their best trap yet to exploit De Gaulle for the greater good...
...from the rest of the world. The decision to put the tax revenues-which could rise to a formidable $10 billion a year-into a common fund under central control had been stalled off for years. With the need for a decision imminent, Hallstein's technicians laid their trap. Their suggestion: Why not hand control of the money over to the Eurocrats, creating Europe's first federal treasury? If that sounded too much like taxation without representation, then why not give the European Parliament-even more supranationally inclined than the Eurocrats-a hand on the cash...
...unusual for a defendant to claim that he was trapped into committing a crime. Often he is speaking the truth, at least by his own lights. Law enforcement officers regularly "solicit" criminal activity by playing up to homosexuals, using decoy letters to trap postal thieves, making narcotics "buys," and getting their pockets picked. Entrapment, in fact, was the chief defense in a trial that closed in Manhattan last week. The case concerned the three men who were arrested last February in a bizarre conspiracy to blow up the Statue of Liberty (TIME...