Word: trappings
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...mere nine days later, a Harvard shuttle bus loaded with children burst into flames on a different Massachusetts interstate. Thanks to the driver, who heard funny noises coming from the engine and evacuated the vehicle, no one was on the Harvard-owned rat trap (which regularly transports students to and from the Quad and Mather House) when it blew...
...canine terror is the American pit bull, a dog with a squat, muscular body and thick, steel-trap jaws that is descended from the fighting bulldogs of 19th century England. In 2 1/2 years it has been responsible for 16 deaths across the country, six of them in the past year, leading many municipalities to pass laws to restrict ownership. It is estimated that there are now 500,000 unregistered, often poorly bred pit bullterriers in the U.S. So fearsome is the dog's reputation that it has become imbued with much the same malevolent aura as the beast...
...audience that when Senate Counsel Arthur Liman came stalking after him, a curious effect set in, even among some who thought that North was lying. One wanted to shout at the screen, like kids at a Saturday matinee of long ago, "Watch out, Ollie! He's setting a trap...
That briefcase was on display last week when Chastain told the U.S. House Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs how he had posed as an arms dealer to trap Marcos into revealing his plans. He then turned the tapes over to the Philippine government, which informed the U.S. Government of the plot...
...choosing his guests in order to orchestrate a lively discussion. Each is given the works of the others well in advance and is expected to read them thoroughly. Current books are discussed along with older, often obscure works. "The show is intended to make people read," Pivot explains, "to trap the viewer by letting him know a little of what is in a book and then making him go out and buy it to learn the rest...