Word: tricked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Telltale Waves. Radioactive dust tells nothing about the power of the shot, but Japanese bomb watchers have another trick that gives a fair indication. They measure the power of the atmospheric wave set in motion by the explosion. The wave from the U.S. blast at Bikini (2,485 miles from Tokyo) rated .4 millibars in Japan, while the Soviet explosion (1,802 miles from Tokyo) rated only .15 millibars. These figures cannot be taken as directly proportional to the power of the explosions (shock waves can act odd), but observers in Japan estimate the biggest U.S. bang at 12 megatons...
Behind the Minnesota results lay a combination of factors. The bigger Democratic vote was largely due to the fact that there was a hot contest in the Democratic primary, and no contest on the Republican side. Some Republicans crossed over to embarrass the Democratic leadership, an old trick introduced in Minnesota years ago by Harold Stassen. Others voted on the Democratic side because they are angry about the farm situation. No doubt hundreds of Democrats voted for Kefauver because they resented what he so expertly exploited as an attempt by the party "bosses" to shove Stevenson down their throats...
...more enemies in high places than friends. They were called "all things to all men" and taxed with the charge that they hold, in effect, that a good end justifies the use of a less good means; to this day Webster defines "Jesuitic" as "designing; crafty; as, a Jesuitical trick." The Jesuits have as persistently and meticulously fought the charge and elucidated the oft-small but decisive difference between unprincipled expediency and principled pragmatism. The order has suffered reverses and reprisals. In 1773, under political pressure from the courts of Spain, Portugal, Naples and France, Pope Clement XIV suppressed...
...trick is to remember that while the value of a number in Arabic numerals depends on its position (e.g., 2 in 126 is worth 20), an X, V, L or C is still ten, five, 50 or 100 no matter where it appears. Thus, in finding the answer to "What is XXVIII multiplied by XII?", a Roman might have multiplied from left to right the top number by each numeral in the bottom number. Taking X (10) times XXVIII, he would get 20X5, ten Vs and 30 Is, which would become CCLXXX. After adding XXVIII and XXVIII to this...
Strictly Stock. During the cutthroat N.A.S.C.A.R. competition, drivers and mechanics tried every trick in the book. Each car was supposed to be strictly a stock model, no different than those in the dealers' showrooms. Officials worked over time, tearing down winning cars in every time trial, probing and prying, measuring and checking to see that they had not been doctored in violation of the rules. In the "Flying Mile"* for passenger cars, for instance, officials had to disqualify four of Mauri Rose's fastest Chevvies because their fan belts just happened to break loose, a quadruple coincidence that...