Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Phillips-Jones Corp., this was a historic occasion, as historic as the one more than 20 years ago when the company brought out its famed Van Heusen collar* and revolutionized the shirt industry. Phillips hoped to start another revolution with his no-wrinkle collar. He had worked the trick by weaving the several plies of cloth used for an ordinary collar into a single thickness...
...fact which Lilienthal himself privately deplored. But they had their light fixed on him now. As baffled as they were, and as unprepared as they were, they were still determined to know a lot more about the details of how Lilienthal had been running his atomic empire. The trick would be to strengthen what was weak in AEC without weakening all that was strong...
...doorway. "What about him?" asked a civilian. "He is very happy now," replied the noncom. The soldier, puffing a cigarette, grinned sheepishly. And under the marquee of the Cathay Theater, a lone Communist private, obviously ill at ease in the big city's hurlyburly, served a nervous trick as sentry. Behind him, a gaudily got-up billboard advertised the Cathay's latest feature attraction: I Wonder Who's Kissing...
Pravda's Unhappy. The real trick is not figuring out what the censor will dislike, but what ordinary Russians will like. Amerika's staff studies Russian newspapers and magazines, checks fan mail received by the embassy and samples reader opinion through State Department staffers in the U.S.S.R. Amerika's Russian readers think Peter Arno's school of humor vulgar and unfunny. Accustomed to treating Stalin & Co. with respect, they never laugh at jokes about U.S. Presidents and Senators. They prefer articles on science, the theater and industry, glimpses of U.S. home life. No. i on Amerika...
...made entrance in the Hudson affair impossible, as far as the respective booking agencies were concerned. But surely some solution can be worked out to leave time for both races. Perhaps the idea of rowing Yale after commencement could be dropped. Any one of several solutions might do the trick...