Word: trappings
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...this snug foxhole, Reines will assemble a vast neutrino trap, designed at Cleveland's Case Institute. Even the most powerful cosmic rays do not penetrate to the depth of the gold mine, but the entire universe is believed to be swarming with neutrinos that will be deterred not at all by two miles of rock. Some of them are believed to carry unusual amounts of energy, and these fat neutrinos should be easier to detect than leaner ones...
...preserves even have their own aircraft landing strips ("Taxi Right Up to the Clubhouse," boasts California's Hidden Valley Club, favorite retreat of Lawrence Welk and Oilman Earl Gilmore). Wisconsin's Rainbow Springs stocks pheasant, quail, partridge and ducks, offers a 41-room clubhouse, skeet and trap ranges, a swimming pool, ice-skating, and an 18-hole golf course...
Princeton opened up with rugged play that kept the ball dangerously close to the Crimson goal all through the first period. Without fouling, the Tigers managed to power their way to almost every head and trap. Princeton's Nigerian fullback Omats Omatete lived up to pre-game billing: his vicious boots cleared the ball more than half the length of the field...
...Jack's too, apparently. On the final day he rattled off four birdies in five holes. The par-four sixth hole presented a problem when his second shot caught a trap 70 ft. from the pin. So he pulled out his sand wedge, swung-and blasted the ball straight into the cup. At that, the Duke of Windsor, watching from the edge of the green, tumbled straight off his shooting stick. "Greatest shot I ever saw," he gasped. Arnie Palmer yanked his ailing game together to fire a 34 and ensure the U.S. team a victory that was worth...
...universe. Santayana never shared that illusion. Philosophies, sciences and religions were so many human dreams, he felt, that were more or less relevant to reality. The task of the philosopher was to take sympathetic note of all of them, discriminate among them, but never fall into the trap of believing any one exclusively. Santayana loved the spiritual discipline of Roman Catholicism, for instance, but he did not accept its doctrines as ultimate truth. "We must see heaven in the midst of earth, just above it, accompanying earth as beauty accompanies it. We must not try to get heaven pure, afterwards...