Word: tricked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soggy September drizzle. In Bretaigne Windust's The Lord Don't Play Favorites on NBC's Producers' Showcase, a Kansas hick town was caught in a drought. A bankrupt circus only made matters worse by praying for a dry track on which to run its trick horse. The Lord let it rain and the horse won anyway, but as musical theater the whole carnival romp was a washout. Recording Artist Kay Starr's anvil voice (with a nice built-in sob) led a lusty counterpoint melody between town and clown. But Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong...
...better. Coming home on the back nine, he fired sub-par golf, overpowered the weary challenger to win 5 and 4. In the long history of the U.S. Amateur, only six other men have won the title twice in succession. Harvie Ward is the first man to turn the trick since Lawson Little last won in 1935. And since he has no intention of turning pro, he is a prime favorite to win again...
...Eastbourne with another dispatch covering the doctor's testimony at the inquest where one of his patients was found to have taken an overdose of sleeping tablets. The boldest paper managed to tell much of the story-and even run a picture of the doctor-by a slick trick: it got the doctor's lawyers to approve a sympathetic story that named him as the victim of a malign whispering campaign-and managed to print many of the whispers ("murder") in the course of deploring them...
...Tricks. Mars came fairly close in 1954. but it could be observed effectively only from the earth's Southern Hemisphere, where observatories are few. So 1954 was a kind of dress rehearsal for this year's event. Astronomers have devised new tricks and instruments. Much of their equipment has improved materially in the last few years. Photographic films are faster and finer-grained. They may have improved enough to get a photographic record of the fleeting Martian details that visual observers believe they have seen. If plain telescopic photography does not succeed, one of the several electronic devices...
...rarely that gushy, precious or explicit. Indeed, though she sees with a child's fresh eye, she has a special gift for the macabre. She raises an unlikely chill with the tale of a lady whose poodle comes to tea in a dinner jacket. She turns a trick of perspective to eerie effect by playing out the story of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar with a cast of sewer rats. Her most persistent theme: a lament over man's inhumanity to beasts. As a thoughtful cat tells a shepherd dog in a message from the realm...