Word: trappings
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...sighed in gratitude for a respite. Said the Times: "There is cause for deep thankfulness in the news about Indo-China. There cannot be joy." Said the News Chronicle: "You can do something constructive with peace. You can only win a war . . . [But] a war averted can be a trap if it turns out to be only postponed...
...loaded .22-cal. pistol. Only the tip of the barrel protruded from the paneling, pointed at the level of a man's heart toward the pantry door. From the hidden trigger, the captain connected a piece of cord to the door handle and completed his booby trap...
...ropes and long poles, gathered each night at dusk near the municipal post office for briefing. In deep secrecy, lest the cow owners foil their plans, the posses deployed to strategic spots in the city, blocking off the ends of streets and side alleys. Their main idea was to trap the vagrants and drive them into a temporary pound, but time and again the cornered cows would charge their pursuers and escape, frightening the wits and the sleep out of many Delhi citizens dozing in cots on the streets. When finally trapped, the cows would lie down...
...miles across and sometimes taller than the Rocky Mountains, are the famed salt domes of the Gulf Coast. In the eyes of the oilmen, they are lovely things. As the salt pokes through the sediment beds, it bends and breaks them and drags them upward, forming many pockets to trap the oil that has formed from marine organisms buried in the sediments. Best of all, salt domes all but shout, "Here we are!" To an oil geologist using the proper instruments (gravimeters and seismographs), a deeply buried dome stands out like a snowcapped mountain against a clear...
...Thompson Products President John David Wright, is for a manufacturer to "stick with his product long after it should be dropped, to prove he was right." Another great problem is to find the new executives needed to make and sell a new product. Many a company falls into the trap of spreading its talent too thin...