Word: trappings
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...this is a symptom of sport, not just soccer. Roger Neilson nearly led the expansion and relatively talent-barren Florida Panthers to the NHL playoffs last year by emphasizing the clutch-and-grab tactics of the neutral zone trap and banking on good goal-tending (i.e. John Vanbiesbrouck) to save them when the trap failed...
Upsets are usually stolen rather than claimed. Underdogs rarely swallow games with dominating player; they most often nibble away at them by capitalizing on mistakes and then nervously wait for the trap to snap...
Harvard's 18-13 loss to Cornell on Saturday was a case in which the trap snapped. For 58:58 of a one-hour game, the Crimson (2-2 overall, 1-1 Ivy) floated on the hopes of undeserved victory, only to lose on a touchdown by Cornell super-back Chad Levitt with 1:02 left. Appropriately, Crimson moods after the game were those of disappointed felons rather than violated property holders...
...past Clinton's original noon deadline, Biamby burst into the room to report that he had received a fax and two phone calls from the U.S. informing him that American airborne troops had taken off and the invasion was about to begin. "He concluded we were part of a trap," says Nunn. Biamby told Cedras to go into hiding instantly and warned Nunn that he would commit suicide before he would flee the country. Nunn said he feared "it was over, we weren't going to get any agreement." Cedras said he had to consult his president, meaning Emile Jonassaint...
...mayor of Chicago admitted that Yummy had slipped through the cracks. Just what cracks were those? The sharp crevices that trap children and break them into cruel little pieces. Chicago's authorities had known about Yummy for years. He was born to a teenage addict mother and a father now in jail. As a baby he was burned and beaten. As a student he often missed more days of school than he attended. As a ripening thug he shuttled between homes and detention centers and the safe houses maintained by his gang. The police arrested him again and again...