Word: trappings
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...being carried away to prison, torture and death without emotion-though it is on record that she once said "Pardon" to a woman friend whom she had just betrayed. The Cat continued her broadcasts to London and because of phony messages sent in her name, the British failed to trap the warships Scharnhorst, Gneisenau and Prinz Eugen; and it was she who informed the Nazis of the approaching British Commando raid on St. Nazaire. Out of a total British raiding force of 353. no less than 212 were killed or missing...
...earth's moon is handy, only 238,857 miles away, but its considerable size (2,160 miles diameter) makes it a trap in space. Its gravitational pull is one-sixth as strong as the earth's, which means that unless a spaceship is braked in some way, it will hit the moon's surface at 5,000 m.p.h. Since the moon has no appreciable atmosphere that can be used for braking, the ship will have to cushion its fall by burning precious fuel in its rocket engine. To take off from the moon will cost fuel...
...from foreign trade. Looking for a Republican member of the House Ways and Means Committee to co-sponsor the Administration bill, the White House had to reach past three ardent Republican protectionists-New York's Daniel Reed. Ohio's Thomas Jenkins, Pennsylvania's Richard Simpson-to trap the fourth-ranking Republican, New Jersey's Robert Kean, and he was far from eager...
...Cervi was puzzled," wrote Cervi. "Was the mysterious sender offering $1,000 as a perverse bribe, a gift of gratitude, prelude to a trap to be sprung later or giving vent to honest outrage?" In a P.S. to the sender, Editor Cervi suggested: "If this is a trick, why don't you try us out on a $100,000 note...
...Alger Hiss. Bernard Shaw, Conan Doyle, G. K. Chesterton ringingly defended Casement. Others, including Poet Alfred Noyes, equally ringingly denounced him (this year, at 77, Poet Noyes published an emotional book reversing his earlier stand). It may have been a kind of Irish Faust who disappeared through the trap on the gallows of Pentonville Prison. Yet objective readers of Author MacColl's biography must agree that he was truly and justly hanged for treason. For the rest of the long line of Irish martyrs, Roger Casement must make unfortunate if intriguing company...