Word: trappings
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...many suffering, there is hope in sight. It is rare that one sees speakers over the age of 30 fall into the same trap. Even seniors seem to be comparatively immune—presumably because long years of experience have taught then that TFs really aren’t all that frightening. With maturity comes confidence and with confidence the knack of knowing how to phrase one’s argument in a concise and clear fashion. Given time, the “likes” should fall away altogether...
...strongest memories of childhood consist of meeting the great luminaries of Harvard and basking in their wisdom,” she says. “I suppose there was some of that, but mostly I remember horsing around with my brother in the elevator…and trying to trap him in the basement…and of course I remember that the dining hall food was terrible...
...moving south at around 2am in the first days of Operation Anaconda, when a brightly colored truck carrying Afghan soldiers was hit by al Qaeda's heavy weapons. It now lies on its side in a ditch, not far from the mud-brick structure to the east where the trap had been laid. Calling in close air support, the coalition troops had pummeled the building and pushed the enemy back. But the al Qaeda fighters regrouped at a high walled compound further down the road and off to the west. Again they unleashed heavy weapons fire; once more they were...
...being the commander - the man quietly placing and arranging American combat boots on the ground in Afghanistan with a mission to herd, trap and finish off thousands of hardened Al-Qaeda fighters - Army Gen. Tommy Franks is TIME.com's Person of the Week. You just don't see him much...
...still calling attention to this social injustice. It’s a beginning, not a solution.” Maybe it was an attempt to kill her guilt, but at least she is honest about the inadequacies of political artistic expression. However, the work falls into the trap of assuming too much; it lacks ultimate authenticity because she is constructing a fantasy of homelessness without an underlying reality. According to Termini, the song itself was written as a lullaby to Peter, a homeless man she regularly saw sleeping in the doorway of the Unitarian Church on Church Street...