Word: traps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scout dogs. They have been known to stampede water buffalo into American defensive wire and mines. They like to leave snakes and spiders in bunkers and underground complexes in order to keep U.S. troopers from investigating them. Not long ago, a Special Forces patrol came upon an ingenious booby trap that consisted of a basket filled with poisonous snakes. Its writhing contents would have cascaded on a man tripping the wire...
Even the more liberal Southerners sometimes fall into the "Unqualified Nigras" trap. "I wouldn't mind hirin' some of the nigras," a lumber-yard owner said last summer, "but I just can't find any who know how to do the work. They just can't read and learn the job or work steady...
...voiceprinter. Though a prisoner, he is still a convinced Communist. With sympathy and remarkable subtlety, Solzhenitsyn makes clear the process of self-brainwashing by which such a man can sustain such a moral paradox?and can even convince himself that it is right and his duty to help trap Volodin and condemn him to the labor camps...
...Darren McGavin, who played Mike Hammer in the television series, is now a mercifully un-Hammerlike private eye named David Ross. In the first program, Ross got his work done without resorting to brutality and heman seductions; he impersonated a millionaire gambler in an effort to trap a crooked cardplayer. Ross exposed the cheater and departed, having provided the viewer with a provocative glimpse of a cutthroat poker game. That's all, and that's enough...
...Bell) is more than just lean and good looking and a whiz at going up and down drainpipes. He suffers and feels for the sufferings of others: the lonely misery of a middle-aged slattern whose husband is doing time, the agony of a vixen caught in a trap. His girl (Judi Dench) is really no bird for a burglar. She is a slightly scruffy but sensitive young woman who is doing her best to raise a five-year-old illegitimate son by teaching art in the orphanage where she boards him and by selling encyclopedias on the side...