Word: trappings
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...which is made by letting steam condense inside hair-thin glass tubes-could pick up impurities even in the hands of the most cautious chemist. In fact, investigators who have tried to make polywater in polyethylene plastic tubes have invariably failed, Davis notes, because polyethylene is nonporous and cannot trap particles...
...Very close to the time Schroeder is being buried, five officers in Worcester, Mass., are setting their trap to snare the elusive Lefty Gilday in the town's Billing's Square...
Again, some Cambridge radicals smelled a trap, and began circulating the word that the planned action might not be the smartest in the world. Nevertheless, by curfew time about 150 people had gathered on the Common and trash bonfires were burning brightly...
...Trapper Joe Delia has only to look at himself to see why "people can't live out like they used to." Mr. Delia, who would trap wild animals for their pelts and who would net thousands of salmon "just to feed our teams," is no better than the oil companies who would ruin Alaska's fragile ecology...
...nice thing about a snow machine, Joe adds, is that it enables him to get home every night. Sometimes he takes his wife Carlene, 31, and his two children (nine months and four years old) down the trap line. They always take two machines: if the weather turns mean or if one of the machines breaks down, they can be sure of getting the kids back to Skwentna safely...