Word: trapsing
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When I was growing up, I recall hearing how barbaric the North Vietnamese troops were during the Vietnam War. The descriptions of their booby traps were unbelievably gruesome. Alas, now I find our own Marines have been every bit as barbaric and gruesome. It seems to me the U.S. Marines...
Fagles made special effort in his translation to avoid the old-fashioned type of stilted, impenetrable rendering that forces the reader into saccadic conniptions in the search for a sentence's subject. With a smile he recognizes such age-old traps of translation in his book's postscript: "Not a...
Question One also seeks to ban the hunting of bears and bobcats with dogs and the use of padded traps, which can result in mutilation of captured animals.
Jo Anne Preston, a board member of the Cambridge Civic Association and a supporter of the proposal, says the ballot question came partially as a result of the Fisheries and Wildlife Board's recent decision to expand the number of traps hunters are allowed to place on their property.
"Cranberry farmers will tell you that they need these traps to prevent wildlife from eating up their profits," Vernon says.