Word: trappings
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During the ordeal, nine people were trap- ped inside the monument for a time, huge government buildings were evacuated and officials worried about the safety of the White House, only six blocks away
...commit themselves to any specific acts. Washington, finally aware that the sanctions were dividing the alliance without stopping the building of the pipeline, needed an excuse to end them. Said one senior adviser to Reagan: "We didn't want cheese. We just wanted out of the trap." The French attempt to deny Reagan even this measure efface saving irritated British and Italian as well as U.S. officials. All regarded it as a play to French public opinion, which since Gaullist days has placed a high premium on independence from Washington...
...spook escaped arrest, living in a seaside villa in Tripoli, Libya, on the proceeds from his lucrative business. In his dealings he enlisted help from former agents, as well as from firms he had used as covers in his CIA days. Last June federal agents sprung a brilliant, elaborate trap covering three continents and lured the elusive Wilson back to New York City, where he was then seized. His partner, former Agent Frank Terpil, is still at large...
Harvard was the first team to get on the scoreboard With 36:51 ticked off on the clock in the first half. Sweeper Debbie field booted the ball over the Riverwomen back who had pulled up too far in an attempt to trap the ball. Tri-captain Laura Mayer was waiting downfield and when the ball landed on leaped...
...Alive (CBS, Tuesdays, 8 p.m. E.S.T.), which appropriates the dashing slogan, cut-to-measure mythos and even the name of the 1930s animal hunter Frank Buck. Mounted like an old Republic serial, the slap-happy adventure show boasts a congenial leading man in Bruce Boxleitner. He is required to trap all manner of jungle animals without doing them physical harm and, not incidentally, battle Nazis, Asian warlords and assorted jetsam that floats past Malaya...