Word: tricked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When a Russian says someone has "passed him a pig" he means that he has been done a dirty trick. Last week Nikita Khrushchev, who farrows folksy epigrams wherever his pudgy frame goes, told a gathering of farm bosses and workers that if only they would concentrate on producing more pigs, say two per citizen, the expression "passing a pig" would mean doing a good deed, instead of a bad one. In the next breath Khrushchev passed Soviet citizenry its biggest pig in many a year: he declared a moratorium on 260 billion rubles ($65billion) lent to the state...
Impresario-Composer Marcel Landowski* has turned the trick largely by carrying a big opera orchestra (the excellent ensemble of Paris' Société des Concerts du Conservatoire) around with him on a tape machine...
...fierce competition for talent, businessmen try every trick to find and keep good secretaries. In Chicago, Prudential Insurance Co. even puts its young girl employees to work recruiting their friends, rewards them with one day off (with pay) for each catch. In New York, once a girl agrees to sign up, she may get as much as $70 a week just to come in and learn to be a secretary, can make up to $100 a week when she completes her training, twice what a seasoned secretary got ten years ago. In sprawling Los Angeles some businessmen tack...
...World Champion Juan Manuel Fangio and France's Jean Behra, a pair of extraordinarily delicate car conservers, the 400-h.p. Maserati was in fact taking it easy. No one knew better than Fangio and Behra that speed alone is not enough on Sebring's demanding course; the trick is to keep a car going all the way to the finish...
...splashed to the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming championship, but Yale Sophomore Tim Jecko stroked along at top speed just the same, took the 100-and 200-yd. butterfly and the 200-yd. individual medley titles, became the first triple winner since Yale's late Aussie John Marshall turned the trick...