Word: sleight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have been the downfall of the single wing. Its tailback and fullback, alone behind the center, can provide little opportunity for faking or sufficient pass blocking for each other. Yesterday's tailback was primarily a runner, but today's quarterback must be able to throw the football and execute sleight-of-hand as well...
After a shaky first quarter, Harvard controlled the ball and got off a number of shots on the Lion net. Goalie Jon Newman stopped them all, but rarely did he have to use any sleight-of-hand to block a shot...
What do stubborn children, fortunetellers, jugglers, gypsies, practitioners of hoomanamana (Hawaiian black magic), sleight-of-hand artists, common fiddlers and persons who paint their faces have in common? Under the varying laws of the 50 states, they are all vagrants and punishable by fines of up to $1,000 and two years in jail. Almost without exception, such charges would be laughed out of court. But vagrancy laws are so vague that they apply to a great many other people too-and when they are used, or when the police even try to put them to work, they...
...said that supervision must be self-effacing but efficacious, and that the best teaching was the sleight of hand which led students to discoveries they felt were there...
NOBODY LOVES AN ALBATROSS. A glib, gabby phony of a TV writer (Robert Preston) tries to shore up a crumbling career with sleight-of-tongue, and makes...