Word: trick-shot
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...hook Gallic mysteries like goujon, breme and chevaine. Two hunting pieces extracted from Humphrey's poignant 1977 memoir Farther Off from Heaven call back the hot dust and snaky swamps of his Depression-era boyhood in east Texas, along with the ghost of his hard-drinking, bar-fighting, trick-shot artist of a father...
...niblick. To keep himself amused, he tried "a little hocuspocus" on the practice tee, and club members started showing up to applaud such antics as hitting two balls simultaneously, one with a hook, the other with a slice. Aha! thought Hahn, and hit the road as a trick-shot artist. In the 15 years since, Hahn has visited 37 countries, traveled 1,500,000 miles. Today, his income from exhibitions, movies, TV, books and newspaper columns runs to $100,000 a year...
Milland turns up as a vaudeville trick-shot artist in a post-bellum copper-mining town where Villain MacDonald Carey is whipping up anti-Confederate feeling for crass economic reasons. The ex-colonel rallies the underprivileged Southerners, converts Adventuress Lamarr to righteousness and does his bit to bind the nation's wounds by quoting Lincoln on "malice toward none." What is especially depressing about Copper Canyon is not so much its dreary reprise of movies best forgotten as its dreary portent of movies still to come...
...Trick-Shot Artist." Back in the witness chair, Airman Hughes took off again. In scrawling longhand he had written a statement and he read it challengingly: "The public has witnessed two men getting up under oath and saying things which contradict each other. ... It stands to reason one of us is telling something which is not the truth. I have been reprimanded for using the word liar, so I shall try to avoid using the word...
...Nobody kicks around in this country without acquiring a reputation, good or bad. ... I may be a little unkind in what I have to say. . . . Brewster has been described to me as clever, resourceful, a terrific public speaker . . . one of the greatest trick-shot artists in Washington...