Word: sleight-of-hand
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Adept as he is at sleight-of-hand tales, Aymé is even better at psychological feet-of-clay stories. The title piece, The Proverb, is about a boy who has been brought up to worship his father but also fears and dislikes him. One day the father insists on writing a school essay for his son. The teacher openly ridicules the effort as a piece of rhetorical bombast, gives the boy the lowest mark in the class. On tenterhooks, the proud father asks his son the grade. Tempted to deflate the stuffy old humbug, the boy lies instead...
...game of sprinting, sharpshooting giants, Guy Rodgers, 24, is the league's smallest fulltime starter, relies on oldfashioned, sleight-of-hand playmaking. At his slick best. Rodgers is a marvel of balance and bounce who can dribble behind his back at full tilt, delicately dissect opponents' defenses with pinpoint passes. Weighing a compact 188 Ibs., Rodgers is so superbly coordinated that he often does not bother to catch a pass, instead taps the ball to the floor to start his dribble. In just his second year as a pro, Rodgers is second in assists-per-game only...
...show certain to wow children and win more than indulgent approval from their parents. Headed by Paul Tripp. who created the excellent Mr. I. Magination in 1949, It's Magic devotes a swift-paced half hour to the Black Arts. Gali Gali, a sleight-of-hand Egyptian, displayed a witty routine involving empty eggcups and a small barnyard of baby chicks; three attractively inept dancers with the help of a black backdrop and black-garbed assistants suavely defied gravity; Dominique, a French pickpocket, took a spectator's shirt from his back without his knowing...
Percentage Player. Unlike most of basketball's angular skyscrapers, who have trouble getting out of their own way, Dukes is both agile and graceful. He does not depend on height alone. Against another tall man, Dukes's sleight-of-hand artistry-he shoots equally well with both hands-often feints the defensive man completely out of position. As a defensive "rebounder," i.e., grabbing the ball off the backboards. Dukes takes advantage of both his height and cat-quick reflexes...
...General Eisenhower] referred to ammunition. But [he] has been listening to the guys who would like to have all the ammunition we could possibly lay down. I would expect that." Reeder admitted that U.N. Commander Mark Clark had officially requested bigger deliveries of shells. Then Reeder volunteered a sleight-of-hand statement with few equals in the Pentagon's recent history: "We have plenty of ammunition to hold a line [in Korea]. But if you want to get going again it would obviously take a lot more ammunition. We don't have any unused capacity in stand...