Word: trappings
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...that. The meeting took place in the summer of 1956-the presidential election year-and Adams warned his senior staffers that some evidently improper requests had come to the White House from congressional sources. "We are all fair game," he announced. Adams feared that the Democrats might try to trap the White House by planting a scandal during the campaign. The watchword was handed out: prudence...
...This whole thing, the obligations, the routine, it can all get to be like a trap. Now you take your mother, Billy, she don't understand this. Oh, it ain't that I don't love my family; it's just that - it ain't enough. I mean, a man's got an obligation to himself, too, to be happy the best way he can. D'y'understand?" But how can a kid that age understand? Pa gives up and buys him a beer and goes off to see his girl...
...story of how 10.000 Greeks fled the trap is told in a third-person narrative by the man who led them out of the trap: Xenophon, a 30-year-old Athenian, who was a friend of Socrates and the world's first war correspondent; he accompanied the expedition as a curious observer, not a soldier. This modern translation by the late Professor William H. D. Rouse (the Iliad and the Odyssey) marks another important addition to the ancient classics that are being turned into briskly readable, contemporary English by such able writers as Robert Graves (The Golden...
From exile in the Dominican Republic, Perón's first reaction was to denounce the law as a "trap," and to warn his top henchmen to be careful about returning to Argentina. But back home Perón's lawyer filed the first case testing just how broadly the law will be interpreted in court. The attorney asked a federal court to drop a charge of treason from the list of indictments pending against Perón. Even if the lawyer wins this case, he will have little chance of knocking down all other charges, including...
...Tender Trap. In Chicago, Ronald E. Whitaker stole a billfold from an elderly man, sympathetically complied with the old man's plea that he return it, handed over his own billfold by mistake, wound up with a one-to-three-year prison term after the old man turned it over to police...