Word: traps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blackouts whenever rats gnaw through power lines, a never-failing taste treat. When a U.S. tourist was assured by the manager of a luxurious Ginza hotel that he couldn't possibly have seen a rat "as big as a cat" in his room, the American bought a rat trap, showed up at the reservation desk the next day triumphantly lugging a ¾-lb. Rattus norvegicus...
Meatballs & Mikes. For weapons, the rat hunters mostly used a supply of 300,000 poisoned meatballs-about one for every six or eight rats believed to be in the Ginza. Exterminators bugged ratholes with tiny microphones so as to detect enemy strongholds. They also planted extra-strong traps that are normally used to trap mink, since Ginza rats are a special samurai breed that can usually chew through a conventional trap. The hunters had no illusions about their foe. "The Ginza rats are terribly clever," said one old rodent fighter. "You can't just leave a meatball...
...must not fall into the trap of worldwide Communism. The basic tactics of worldwide Communism is to divide and to conquer. It is to set free nation against free nation, and within the nation, to set brother against brother. Its objective in the United States is to promote tension, turmoil, strife, and to bring about misunderstanding and mistrust...
There was no need for anyone to concern himself with the Honorable Governor's flat assertion that the decline of state power is leading us "into the trap of world-wide Communism," and that, in fact, "left-wing and Communist-front organizations" are leading the assault on the Tenth Amendment. Even a desire to be polite could not restrain the laughter that filled Sanders...
...class that includes East Germany's Prince Von, who puts skates on his hands and glides down two wires from roof to floor, and Mexico's Señor Antonio, the first aerialist in Ringling history to consent to do a hand stand while swinging on a trap bar at the top of the arena. As a child of the circus, Vicki Unus is proud to be La Toria and take her place among them-and among such old B.&B. stars as Harold Alzana, the high wire king, Trevor Bale, the big cat man, the Flying Gibsons...