Word: trappings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nose of a missile to guide it to a target. The U.S. Army trained dogs for jungle patrol duty in Viet Nam. The dogs would lie down when they met a wounded man, stand still if they saw anyone moving, and sit when they detected a booby trap. Their body position would be sensed electronically and radioed to stations behind the lines...
...ounce," says one grower. Soon after the legislature's action, police stumbled upon more than an acre of pot near a shed stocked with drying racks, bags and labels with the brand name American Dream printed in purple. Then a logger was nearly killed when he tripped a dynamite trap around a well-tended marijuana patch. "That's when we began to think that this was serious business," recalls Oregon Narcotics Agent Garold Assmus...
...cruel love trap has been sprung. Giovanna struggles with the police, singing Daniel! Daniel! Perche arrestate Daniel...
...nonaligned and radical Arab states, is absolutely legitimate, since Eritrea was unilaterally incorporated into Ethiopia by the late Emperor Haile Selassie in 1967. Both the Soviets and, particularly, the Cubans are doing their best to keep from getting dragged into the righting there. They apparently realize that Eritrea could trap them in a Viet Nam- like debacle, at the same time laying to rest once and for all what Henry Kissinger calls "the myth of the invincible Cubans...
...Savage War of Peace notes, France's involvement with Algeria proved more trap than treasure from the beginning. Armies of the Bourbon King Charles X first laid claim to the old Barbary coast in 1830; in 1847 Algeria was formally incorporated into France as three huge departments. The white colons were French citizens; the native Muslims were merely residents, subject to taxes and military service but with very limited voting privileges. From time to time, men of good will suggested various ways of expanding Muslim rights, only to see the reforms rejected by the pieds noirs and their archconservative...