Word: trappings
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...speech broadcast to his startled nation, a young intelligence agent, more loyal to the President than to Interior Minister Gomaa, had brought two tape recordings to the President's home early one morning. They were recordings of tapped telephone conversations, revealing that the Interior Minister had set a trap for Sadat about two weeks ago. Gomaa had surrounded the headquarters of Cairo radio with policemen in civilian clothes to prevent the President from speaking to the nation after a stormy meeting of the party's central committee. Sadat chose not to broadcast that night, thus averting a showdown...
...here (and vividly set down)-but so are the sexual fantasies (Lena Horne, a black whore) and the methods used to profit off of racism (e.g., falsely playing up an affection for blacks to a bigoted farmer so that the farmer would kill his daughter's plans to trap the unwilling King in marriage). King also accounts for the embarrassing liberal gestures with which he at first tried to ingratiate himself with blacks. In this category of self-revelation the author supplies a number of chilling documentary anecdotes: how, as an Army officer in the late forties, he risked...
...state that there is a "moral trap" in the position that Calley's guilt applies to all. For, as you reason, "if everyone is guilty, no one is guilty or responsible, and the very meaning of morality disintegrates." Christianity teaches that Christ came to forgive our sins. Would you argue that he need not have come, since at that time the whole world was in sin? Since God, not man, secures the meaning of morality, it is possible that we are all morally in the wrong...
...task of the front runner is to avoid boring the electorate with a drumfire of statements that he may later regret -while remaining in view. Muskie must also steer clear of the Romney trap: disputes with the press over what he did or did not say. Otherwise reporters will be dusting off the old ROMNEY key on their typewriters-the one, the Washington gag has it, that prints at one stroke: "Governor Romney later explained that what he really meant was . . ." That could be the end of presidential hopes, and Muskie knows...
WASHINGTON-In Algonquin Peace City people are afraid. Mayday leaders are afraid that internal disputes may destroy the sense of community they are trying to build. They are afraid that the government may be trying to trap them in their campground. They are afraid of a massive influx of people looking for another Woodstock or a chance to trash...