Word: trappings
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...there. Reporters heard about it, crowded outside the locked door. Committee Co-Chairman J. William Copeland stepped out to offer a compromise he would let the newsmen in if they agreed not to report anything the committee wanted off-the-record. The reporters flatly rejected the proposal, which could trap them into being parties to news suppression. Next day, by voice vote, the North Carolina legislature rammed through a law legalizing closed appropriations-committee hearings. Argued State Representative Oscar G. Barker, onetime Durham Herald staffer: "The law will set democracy back not less than 100 years in North Carolina." Said...
Writing English as if she had been born to the language, Ilona Karmel has composed a novel of admirable restraint. She has sketched in the horrors of Stephania's past only lightly, and has avoided the trap of feeling sorry for her heroine. In its quiet, even-paced way, Stephania is a novel of complete integrity-and a testimonial to one of the human rights that finally bind all men together, the right to suffer...
Once again the police absolved Mrs. Gutheridge of blame. They suggested, too, that she try to arrange a meeting with her telephone tormentor so that they might trap him. But Dorothy Gutheridge, near collapse, could no longer endure the sound of her phone and the relentless daily question. With her father, she fled to a relative's home. "Sometimes I think I am an instrument of death," she said last week. "Sometimes it just seems I can never get in an automobile again. I don't know what I am going to do, but I think...
...practiced crossing her eyes and making the faces that she had found surefire in attracting her father's attention. She played billiards on the third floor with her brothers, and harmonized in the music room with her sisters. She beat out hot rhythms on her brother's trap drum and played aggressive solos on kazoo, ukulele and banjo. She admired and envied her stately older sister Clara ("The Duchess"), and made life both miserable and exciting for her younger sisters, Mary Jane and Josephine. Mary Jane recalls: "I can't count the number of dark closets...
...childish plan for the merging of the unmergeable [Bolsheviks and Mensheviks] has proved him ... a common, noisy champion with faked muscles." In St. Petersburg in 1913, police got wind of Stalin's presence at a party musical matinee. His friends tried to smuggle him out of the trap dressed in a woman's coat, but Stalin was arrested again and sent into exile for the sixth and last time...