Word: tricked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...System as Servant. Because the actual trick-taking value of a hand depends on how the other cards lie, the bridge player must strive to 1) infer the contents of the unseen hands, and 2) convey the picture of his own hand to his partner. In these tasks, a bidding system is an indispensable tool-but so are attention, memory, psychological perceptivity and clear thinking, plus that obscure talent called "card sense." In addition, a really good bridge player has a talent that Charles Goren defines as "the ability to make sound decisions under pressure." Rules, he warns, are made...
Leading against the opponents' contract of four spades (i.e., ten tricks with spades trumps), Goren took two quick tricks with the ace and king of hearts. But where could he go from there? From studying his own hand and dummy's, plus the bidding, he was sure that East held the two unseen aces, and probably the club king. A diamond lead would sacrifice Goren's king. A club lead, enabling East to play through North's queen, would establish a third club trick on which East could discard his losing diamond. And a heart lead...
...already known as a highly successful tournament player, Goren published his first book, Winning Bridge Made Easy. In it he prophetically deviated from the Culbertson system. For suit bids, Goren stuck pretty much to Culbertson's elaborate "honor trick" count, but for no-trump bidding he adopted Milton Work's method of evaluating a hand with a point count: four points for an ace, three for a king, two for a queen, one for a jack. Entranced by the point count's simplicity, Goren devoted numberless hours to expanding the idea into a general bidding method...
...matches, methodically plunked all 50 of his shots into the bull's-eye at distances of 200 to 600 yds., registered the first perfect score of 250 points in the 55-year history of national trophy matches. Three days later Army Pfc. Philip Toloczko, 23, turned the same trick...
...whine of pure jet engines without cutting engine efficiency too much. Last week Boeing announced that it had licked the problem. It said that its suppressor had cut jet noise below the level promised purchasers of the 707, making it slightly less noisy than a Super Constellation. The trick was done by breaking up the jet stream and funneling it through 21 narrow after tubes instead of one big tube. "The big, doughnut-shaped exhaust roar," said a Boeing engineer, "was broken down into 21 smaller, bagel-sized noises." The loss in efficiency: only 2% loss in thrust...