Word: traps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Stepmotherhood can look particularly alluring to women who have never had children. But Philippa Greene Mulford, author of Keys to Successful Stepmothering, refers to this as the "Whoops! I forgot to have kids. Let me get a ready-made family" syndrome. "That's a huge trap," she warns. Those who have been parents have at least some experience in family relationships. But a neophyte may find it tough sledding. Add career to the equation, and the result may be a total meltdown. "Being a successful female executive does not require the same skills you need to be a stepmother," says...
...ambitious agent in pursuit of justice. As the story progresses, though, the authenticity of this image becomes questionable. At various times, she claims that she is a thief, just like MacDougal; yet she continues to report to her boss, indicating that she is merely using her thief story to trap MacDougal. To illustrate this uncertainty, the opening scene of the movie features a heist in which a masked thief steals a Rembrandt painting. The audience assumes that the thief is MacDougal, but later on, Baker claims that...
...during the early 1900s, club members had their own clay-pigeon trap near a swamp between Soldiers Field and the River...
Normally, the club shoots trap and skeet...
...Trap is an event that involves shooting at flying clay pigeons, each four inches in diameter, from five adjacent stations. The clay pigeons are thrown from an underground bunker...