Word: sleight
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Tricked up in his party duds, Tennessee's Senator Estes Kefauver helped raise a few ($3,000) dollars at a Democratic fund-raising party with some hokumy sleight of hand, included in his act a cautious display of rope twirling. Also in the spirit of things was leggy Maurine Neuberger, wife of Oregon's junior Senator Richard Neuberger, who for the party's fashion show slithered out on stage in a figure-hugging one-piece bathing suit, with companion checked beach coat...
...there some sleight of hand in your report on the Indiana primary election results (May 21)? You say that Vanderburgh
...pilot. In her way Mrs. Lausche has managed to change her husband slightly, often without his knowledge. When he refused to yield his wrinkled, tired suits to her for cleaning and pressing, Jane slyly bought duplicate suits, now manages to keep the governor's wardrobe fresh by wifely sleight of hand. It was years before Frank Lausche discovered that he owned eight suits, not four...
There have been many good quarterbacks performing in Soldiers Field in the past few seasons. There were Brown's Pete Kohut, Columbia's Claude Benham and Dartmouth's Bill Beagle, but Cornell's star was the best. His sleight of hand fooled oven the most experienced observers in the press box, and his pitch outs and forward passes were extremely accurate. He scored all three Cornell touchdowns, and kicked two extra points, besides playing the entire game on defense...
...Demonstrating the spectacular sleight of hand that seems built-in in all Notre Dame quarterbacks, Paul Hornung led the Irish to a 19-0 victory over the stubborn Hoosiers of Indiana...