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Maybe you can at least employ your steel-trap mind to helping to figure out where the Mystery Hospital in Ried's Bill is located.

Discourse.net: Stopping the Rot in the US Justice System 2009

If I and her other teachers had never seen her steel-trap memory in action, or witnessed the look of total absorption I glimpsed in the car that day, that was undoubtedly because we hadn't taken enough time or shown enough interest so that she felt sufficiently safe to reveal who she was and what mattered to her.

Alfie Kohn: What We Don't Know About Our Students -- And Why We Don't Know It Alfie Kohn 2011

If I and her other teachers had never seen her steel-trap memory in action, or witnessed the look of total absorption I glimpsed in the car that day, that was undoubtedly because we hadn't taken enough time or shown enough interest so that she felt sufficiently safe to reveal who she was and what mattered to her.

Alfie Kohn: What We Don't Know About Our Students -- And Why We Don't Know It Alfie Kohn 2011

Rather, they all have steel-trap minds like Truman Capote when he wrote In Cold Blood.

Danielle Panabaker Exclusive Interview THE CRAZIES – Collider.com 2010

It now does McChrystal little good that news media have trumpeted everything from his Spartan personal habits (scarcely eats or sleeps) to his physical stamina (runs a lot) to his steel-trap alloy of military smarts and scholarship (reads history).

Norman Solomon: From Great Man to Great Screwup: Behind the McChrystal Uproar 2010

While we strive for eidetic memory and that steel-trap noggin, let's not forget that the systematic purging and erasure of the unnecessary make room for the novel: the memory 2.0 version, if you will.

Lionel: We Are Our Memories 2009

It is like reading the expressions of steel-trap closed minds who somehow created a symbol they call Hillary, but the loyalty is to the symbol, not to the actual person of Hillary.

Edwards: "Democratic Voters Have Made Their Choice, And So Have I" 2009

Yet Fields, whos claims he never lost a case in his life and has a steel-trap mind, told Auletta that "I'm not sure I read it."

Bernard Weinraub: The New Yorker's Funny Anthony Pellicano Story 2008

Fresh off his fourth place finish, somehow pimped as a "win" in the Iowa caucuses, St. John McCain displays his steel-trap grasp on what the American people really want in a president:

Archive 2008-01-01 CC 2008

The people I know who have made a success in this business have varying degrees of skill, technique, and repertoire mastery — what they all have in common is steel-trap musicianship.

The Skills to Pay the Bills Matthew Guerrieri 2006