Word: trappings
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Perhaps the connecting link is the dilemma of becoming a perfect Centralist: everyone likes him, and thus he is successful--but success makes the Centralist different, and, therefore, not a Centralist. Harrington slowly uncovers this trap for Hingham, battering down athletes, public relations men, and psychiatrists in the process. It is a disturbing, but often amusing game...
...unbait the "two Germanys" trap, Adenauer dispatched Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano to Washington this week with the urgent appeal that Western powers stick to their insistence on German reunification...
Advance Scout. In Indianapolis, Harley J. Driskell got 60 days in jail and a $77.75 fine after he sat in his car off a highway, held up a sign that warned passing motorists of a radar speed trap ahead, ran into a cop who approached to flush him from his post...
...began to haunt the bars of Montmartre searching for American soldiers. Finding one, he would strike up a conversation in excellent English. "In France," he would say, "we consider the numbers 1 and 10 unlucky. I hope your hotel room bears a lucky number." Falling into the trap, the G.I., like as not, would tell his room number. After that, it was nothing for Jean-Louis to pose as the G.I. over a telephone and order a room clerk to turn over his suitcases to a French friend, who would shortly call to pick them up. Jean-Louis would then...
...Tender Trap. In Birmingham, police declared their 25-year-old armored car outmoded after they shot it up with carbine rounds in a test, watched the bullets easily rip through one side of the car, dent the other...