Word: trappings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This makes an ever stronger case for sophomores to address the problem, before retreating into the trap as juniors and seniors. Though maintaining very tight friendships with a few classmates is central for our happiness, it is crucial to be outwardly accepting and allow oneself to cultivate new friendships to complement...
CAPE TOWN: The "great crocodile" appears to have caught himself in a trap of his own making. In choosing to hang tough and reject a deal allowing secret testimony to South Africa's Truth Commission, former president P.W. Botha found himself defending a contempt of court case that will likely cover the same ground. "In the end, Botha's simply doing it the hard way," says TIME Johannesburg bureau chief Peter Hawthorne. "The commission will present all the evidence against him in order to explain why he was subpoenaed, and Botha will have to respond to that evidence...
...this, you might have thought it had something to do with Gaypril, the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters Alliance's month-long celebration of queer culture. It doesn't, or at least it shouldn't. Treating cross-dressing as a strictly homosexual issue is falling into the same trap as my homophobic teammates; after all, there are plenty of heterosexual females wearing men's clothing in public. Ann Landers has advised teary wives that there isn't necessarily anything wrong with the secret lingerie in their husband's dresser. And she's right. Male cross-dressing should...
...Alisha kept moving, lining up at the side exits as prescribed by the drill. The kids, a little giddy at this momentary reprieve from math and English, poured out the side entrance into the midday sun--a steady stream of energy and youth, vulnerable flesh racing straight into a trap of precocious sophistication...
...because they've pulled and tugged and sampled and studied it like no other White House in history. "There was no panic," said an insider who watched the mobilization. "They just took a deep breath and said, 'Here we go again.'" In the morning the White House sprang its trap. By unleashing a packet of letters and phone records, gifts and invitations from Willey, it went a long way toward clouding her image as a woman mistreated by a rogue President. That evening lawyer Bob Bennett publicized her efforts to snag a fat book contract. Two days later, by coincidence...