Word: trappings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Conditions. Many, living in isolated hollows miles from the main road, exist on no earned incomes at all, under conditions that make life in an urban ghetto seem almost luxurious by comparison. Their houses are made of tarpaper or unseasoned wood, their food consists of what they can shoot, trap or buy with Government food stamps...
When Woody Allen takes a brave, unhesitating step forward, it is only to tumble through one of life's trap doors. He is a clown who pummels himself with his own pig bladder, an incarnation of the schlemiel, a born super-stupe...
Protesting his final exile to St. Helena, Napoleon declared: "I appeal to history." Last week a guide in Napoleon's birthplace in Ajaccio, taking some liberties with that history, described a movable plank in the floor as "the trap door through which Napoleon had to escape from his admirers when he returned from Egypt." One visitor pointed out that on an earlier visit he had been told Napoleon had used the trap door to escape his enemies, who burned down the house. The guide agreed. "Yes, that's what we used to say, but they've changed...
...collective security would be successful for the nations of the Asian periphery. Pakistan's Yahya Khan wanted to buy new arms from the U.S., but Nixon could only tell him that the matter was under review in Washington. The government-lining Pakistan Times rejected collective security as a trap that might embroil the country in big-power conflicts, and announced that the "special" U.S.-Pakistan relationship of the 1950s "cannot be revived." Nixon later reflected that relations between the Indians and the Pakistanis are no better now than they were when he first visited there in 1953, as Vice...
...least three other men drawn to the fire and the scene of Replogle's crime. Game Warden Bobby McGill pursues Replogle with the vengeance and self-righteousness of a whore gone straight. He had himself been a famous poacher until he was injured in a fall while trapping beaver illegally; the injury has forced him into honest work and accepting wages from a society that he sees as basically corrupt. Doc Mechling, a wealthy physician from the nearby town of Sixes, refuses to help trap the poacher because he believes that one man's guilt is inconsequential compared...