Word: sleight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rights of a government employe in a security agency." To make the teaching profession seem to bear a vital relationship to government security would be a small task for experienced red-baiters. If it is to be effective, opposition to the Barnes bill must straightjacket this sort of political sleight-of-hand...
...they did it was something to behold. Lacking brawn, they have to be nimble. And jack-nimble is what they are -and as well-drilled as the Rockettes. Michigan's sleight-of-hand repertory is a baffling assortment of double reverses, buck-reverse laterals, crisscrosses, quick-hits and spins from seven different formations. Sometimes, watching from the side lines, even Coach Crisler isn't sure which Michigan man has the ball. Michigan plays one team on offense, one on defense...
...Tricks. What kind of football will the fans see this fall? The answer: more sleight-of-hand stuff than ever. Most teams are using half a dozen different styles of defense-four-, five-and six-man lines, each having variations known as loose, looping, overshifted, undershifted, orthodox. On offense, the tricky T formation is still the style, with a multitude of refinements, bearing such labels as the split T, the wing T, the QT, the cockeyed T. Said Iowa's Coach Eddie Anderson : "Football is different these days. You don't play a team any more; you play...
Miss Stanwyck, who does well enough with a tough, worldly kind of part, is baffled by the sleight of hand required for this one. Humphrey Bogart also appears uncomfortable. Violence and murder are old stuff to him, but madness and paintbrushes are not quite in his line. Little Miss Ann Carter manages to make a precocious child seem likable and attractive. Thanks to her, the picture is almost worth the trip...
...Born Yesterday" begins and ends in the comfortable Washington apartment of Harry Brock, junk-dealer grown plump through sleight-of-hand in the war surplus bonanza. Against a backdrop of dignitaries come to sell their souls for a cut in Harry's ill-gotten gains, Billie--once a chorine in "Anything Goes"--alternately flits and slinks. Her Flatbush lingo leaves the wives of senators non-plussed; journalist Paul Verrill is assigned to "teach her a few things...