Word: traps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Moses, bluff president of the 1964-65 New York World's Fair Corp., did not hesitate to fault a predecessor. "Many people-some of them well-meaning-suggested we set some sort of classic pattern for the exhibit's architecture," said he, "but we decided not to trap our exhibitors in a maze of conformity. The 1893 Chicago fair, which held strictly to a Greek and Roman mold, set American architecture back 50 years...
...abandoned the sound of a belching baby for fear that it might offend potential customers, and he ruled out frying bacon and tooth brushing as not sufficiently dramatic. But he hopes soon to record an aerial dogfight between two World War I relics, the crash of a sprung gallows trap, the whack of a guillotine blade against the block. And his enduring dream is to catch on his own high-fidelity equipment the mid-century's ultimate sound-an exploding hydrogen bomb...
...apparently butchered at the site. The muck of the springs is such a splendid preservative that even traces of pollen and animal hair as well as the fine bone specimens have been recovered, according to Miss Irwin. Work at the site is dangerous, as the muck tends to trap students in the same way it sucked in animals...
...that flowed like an underground stream beneath the surface of Christianity and burst forth in many forms during the church's first 1,000-odd years. Gnosticism, Manichaeanism, Paulicianism, Bogomilism and the Albigenses all had basic characteristics in common: 1) rejection of the world of matter as a trap imprisoning the divine "spark," 2) the concept of the Saviour as a heavenly being merely masquerading as human to bring salvation to 3) the elect, who often have to conceal themselves from the world, and who are set apart by 4) their special knowledge and personal purity (sexual intercourse...
...three previous rounds, Palmer had scored three straight pars at the par-four 18th; last year, his birdie at the 18th won the Masters. This time Palmer's drive split the middle of the fairway. But his second shot, hit too hastily, veered into a shallow trap at the right edge of the green-the same trap Player's ball had found minutes before. The TV cameras panned in, showed Palmer's ball "plugged"-half buried in the sand-and Player began nervously to sip his drink...