Word: tricked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Colonel Maleter came and looked down," recalls Peter Szanto. "He picked up a small nitroglycerin bottle and threw it at the truck. The truck disappeared in one big roar. Then we all threw nitroglycerin bottles and benzine flashes and used machine pistols on the infantry. It was a fine trick. We killed the infantry, got the truck, the armored car, and four of the tanks in about five minutes...
Already Nasser seemed to be back at his old trick of playing off East against West. As if to flaunt in Western faces the possible consequences of calling him to account, Nasser gave nine Soviet correspondents a two-hour interview in which he thanked the Russians for sending him military aid "without conditions" and for offering "volunteers" to fight the Suez invaders. Said Nasser: "I wish for this friendship to grow and develop in strength." A Nasser aide announced that the Anglo-French attack on Suez had freed Egypt from its commitment to negotiate for nonpolitical operation of the canal...
...Artist Chaliapin, who handled rifles long before he painted them, says there's nothing to it; the trick is to get the stacking swivels properly linked. For Chaliapin's painted version (left) and a genuine Marine Corps stack, see cuts...
Junior John Wylde's hat-trick was the winning margin at Watson yesterday as the junior varsity hockey team defeated Providence College...
President Eisenhower might well begin by drumming into the Prime Minister's intelligent head the simple fact that there's dynamite in those Russian peace-pipes and that while Soviet smiles may do the trick in Asia, only thousands of tanks will work in Budapest. The real point in this lesson is not to force Nehru to condemn Soviet aggression--he has done this already, even if the condemnation was painfully slow in coming; the point is to emphasize to India's leader that the problems of Europe are different from those of Asia, and that the NATO alliance, backed...