Word: trickiest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Trickiest of the professionals are female shoplifters, known variously as "leggers," "knee huggers" and "crotch workers." Their technique consists of tucking stolen merchandise under their skirts and shuffling out of the store with the goods clutched between their thighs. By practicing at home with large telephone books, some have become so expert that they have made it right out the door leg-lugging men's suits, portable typewriters and small TV sets...
...sway school of playing, but he has temperament and spunk, a luminous tone and a controlled technique. Out of a contrasting assortment of half a dozen pieces, he delivered a fine, full-blooded performance of Bach's Sonata No. 4, blazed easily through the trickiest passages of Prokofiev's Sonata in D Major, and captured the dark warmth of Brahms's deceptively difficult Sonata in A Major...
...Trickiest shooting was in the eerie, semidark IFR rooms (for Instrument Flight Rules), where flights are tracked on a set of radarscopes. In all, 40 TIME people were involved, in addition to dozens of staff members of TWA, FAA and air-traffic control. Impressed with the skill and coolness of the personnel in towers and cockpits, one of our photographers remarked: "This assignment has given me greater peace of mind about flying...
...surgeon. In Beethoven's Diabelli Variations, an awesome challenge to pianists twice his age, he impetuously jiggered tempos and juggled rhythms without catching the full depth and breadth of the music. In Mozart's Sonata in F Major, he was all lucidity and logic, rippling through the trickiest passages with an almost playful ease. His interpretations were introspective and often compellingly original; his technique was dazzling, his involvement total...
...unpredictable as horse racing, three strikes do not automatically mean an out. Trainer Henry Forrest and Jockey Don Brumfield were both native Kentuckians, and they were also old hands at Churchill Downs-whose extra-fast surface and extra-long stretch (1,2341 feet) make it one of the trickiest tracks...