Word: legerdemainic
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...idealistic, inexperienced young lawyer undertakes to sue for her inheritance and, incidentally, to establish her legitimacy. At the end squaw gets fortune and lawyer gets squaw. As a regional novel, Whitefish lacks flavor. As a character study it is inept. But as courtroom melodrama it makes intriguing legal legerdemain...
...Chambers is one of those fortunate plays that can stand without this sort of legerdemain. Forman has written, directed, and acted in a production so uniformly excellent that it can be enjoyed without looking for anything beyond what is happening on stage...
...mechanics of the break. As soon as B.C. got a rebound, Austin would barrel down the middle of the court with one player on his left and one on his right. As they passed midcourt, the two men on the outside converged toward Austin, and began to work legerdemain with their passing. Even if two or three Crimson players had scrambled into the backcourt to defend, the only way of stopping the blits was to commit a foul or pray that a B.C. player would blow his shot...
...Democrats, he said, "have put together a short-order foreign policy, serving each day's hash from the leavings of yesterday's mistakes." If given the nomination, he pledged, he would "strip away the sham promises, the heavy-handed politics-as-usual, the worn bag of political legerdemain which the Johnson Administration has substituted for a sense of national purpose. For the past six months the propaganda mills of that Administration have ground out a vast array of slogans and crackpot schemes...
...Legerdemain on the Ledgers. Since the Budget and Accounting Act, requiring the President to submit to Congress an annual estimate of receipts and expenditures, was passed in 1921, every Chief Executive has practiced a bit of legerdemain on the ledgers. Johnson is as adept as any at the art, and he has in a measure practiced it in his first budget. A couple of billion-dollar items...