Word: traps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have not only helped erode the island's underpinnings, but also seem to have unsettled the natural ebb and flow of the tidal waters. In the past, flooding was a rarity in Venice. But now it has become almost a regular occurrence, as winds and new tidal currents trap an overflow of water behind the lagoon's three egresses. Along the canals, water has seeped through foundations to crack and moisten plaster walls -some of them holding priceless paintings. The frescoes by Paolo Veronese in the Church of San Sebastiano, for example, have become cracked and lumped...
...wind experiment, on the lunar surface for only two hours or so. Soon after emerging from Eagle, they will place on the lunar surface a sheet of aluminum foil suspended from a stand. It will be exposed to the constant stream of particles expelled by the sun and should trap rare gases such as argon, krypton, xenon, neon and helium. Returned to earth in a vacuum box, the captive gases will be analyzed to give scientists new insights into the sun and the "wind" that it blows through the solar system...
...proper to acknowledge. When she arrives at the two in which her father was killed, a hanging is in progress. The hanging has all the attributes of a county fair--people spreading picnic baskets, hawkers threading through the crowd, and all stores closed for the main event. When the trap is pulled, Maddy momentarily stops munching on her peach to murmur "Goodness!" and decides that this town has the right judge for Chance. Grit indeed...
When pressed about their seeming lack of results for New Politicians customarily reply that forsaking their principles and delving into pragmatic alliance building will only lead them into the trap which the Democratic Party has rested in since the New Deal. Time is, they say, required for development of the New Politics...
...riding with the dreadful Ned Pepper gang. Mattie and Rooster are joined by La Boeuf (Glen Campbell). That makes five eyes altogether, and woe to the criminal that tries to evade them. The dastardly Chaney can contrive to shoot Rooster and bash in La Boeuf's head and trap Mattie in a rattlesnake pit. But doom hangs over him. What devil, after all, could even hope to best good Christians who possess true grit-the 19th century version of soul...