Word: tricked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that the X-13 has proved remarkably easy to fly. Pilot Girard, who has been working on vertical flight for nearly five years, agrees. Even the critical transition from vertical to horizontal is no problem, he says. "You just tip her forward. It's not much of a trick; any helicopter pilot could...
...take-off point, says Robert G. Chollar, research chief of the National Cash Register Co. at Dayton, was a trick paper coated with clay on one side and with a special colorless ink on the other side. When the sheets were superimposed and written or typed on, the clay and ink were forced into contact. The ink turned deep blue, making a "carbon copy" without carbon, but the paper was no good because in time the ink seeped through it, making unauthorized contact with the clay and staining the paper blue...
...from joining the clay, they dissolved it in oil and churned it into microscopic droplets in a solution of gelatin and other gummy colloids. Then they caused the gelatin to precipitate on the oil droplets, enclosing them in capsules only one ten-thousandth inch in diameter. This trick solved the problem. The capsules and clay can be on the same side of the paper, but the paper remains white until pressure of a pencil or impact of a typewriter breaks the capsules; then the ink mixes with clay and turns blue...
...Pozusek] will never notice it, and when the home is built and the people move in, the thing will collapse and he will have ulcers." The union toughs tried to carry out their orders, but the Pozusek place was "really put together," and the saw trick did not work. They were not defeated: they dynamited...
...They were still running when the regular game ended 103-103. The first overtime period only pushed the tie to 113-113. In the second overtime, the Celtics finally decided that if St. Louis was going to steal their strategy, they might as well try the one trick that had always worked for the Hawks. With their San Francisco import, big Bill Russell, grabbing every rebound in reach, the Celtics moved in front. There they stayed. For the first time in eleven years, the Boston Celtics won the world series of basketball, and they won St. Louis style...