Word: trappings
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...built a brick oven for feasts of winkles and horseshoe crabs. There were few luxuries, and the Hall boys chored around the neighborhood for spending money, but it was a happy, close-knit life. His mother taught Len how to handle a gun (he is still a skilled trap-shooter), and tutored him in his studies so expertly that he skipped to the third grade a month after he entered school...
...broken promise plainly indicated that the amnesty was conceived from the beginning as a trap. Having failed to catch bigger game, it was sprung on Carlos Arcaya, presumably to wring from him information about other exiles...
...parts available in a regular Daytona Dodge agency, Danny prepared his D-500-1 himself. The result was truly a stock car, tuned for the last ounce of performance, but not tricked up. A man could buy the duplicate anywhere Dodges are sold. When Danny skittered into the speed trap, his deep-treaded stockroom tires bounced over the ridged wet sand at an average speed of 130.577 m.p.h. His nearest competitor in the class: a 1956 Mercury, clocked at 124.503 m.p.h...
...will do nothing to reach the goal," he says. "The honor doesn't come from one's desire to attain it. A man should not seek office." A politically wise friend sees the Lausche strategy in another light. The governor, he thinks, has laid a tender trap. "He's a little like the bachelor who has made peace with the opposite sex. He's not going to send a dozen roses, or a 5-lb. box of candy, or buy box seats at the opera. He has decided that the only thing to do is just...
Last week, in a Pretoria prison, the gallows trap was sprung and Elifasi Msomi went to his maker. "I am satisfied," nodded Chief Manzo Iwandla, one of nine Zulus watching. "Tikoloshe did not save...