Word: sleight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fundamental single wing football, with the emphasis on blocking and tackling instead of sleight of hand, were down a good Yale team Saturday in the Stadium and brought the Crimson its first Big Three title since...
...statistical sleight of hand, Tsarapkin implied that profits on U.S. private investment overseas average 85%, or $1.5 billion a year on a yearly investment of $1.75 billion. Hotchkis pointed out that profits are returned not on the current year's investment alone, but on the total investment, i.e., $1.5 billion on $16 billion, or less than 10%. On gross profits, said Hotchkis, the investors pay foreign taxes of more than 30%. Of the net profits, they plow back well over half -62% in 1952-into reinvestment in the countries where the profits were earned...
Last week the U.S. Senate showed rare skill at sleight of hand. In one and the same motion, it passed the Hawaiian-Alaskan statehood bill by an impressive 57-to-28 vote and killed the chances of both territories for this year. Reason: the bill, as many of the Senators were fully aware, cannot get through the House...
...those mysterious bits of sleight of hand they love so well, the Russians last week switched their occupation of East Germany from military to civilian control-something the Western allies did four years ago. The brass-heavy Soviet Control Commission was abolished, and General Vasily Chuikov, top man in East Germany for nearly four years, was nominally reduced to mere command of Soviet occupation troops in East Germany...
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...