Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Science we report the story of a daring plane waiting to be built, now that a Government scientist has solved the trick of developing a fighter that can stretch its wings at low speeds, or fold them in the air like a peregrine falcon closing in for the kill...
This dirty trick seemed to outrage (for good reason) and astonish (for no easily articulated reason) Washington...
...plummets in a swift hunting dive, the peregrine falcon is a picture of functional perfection. No airplane has yet come close to copying its easy versatility. But aeronautical engineers have never stopped trying, and the Department of Defense is convinced that government scientists have finally turned the trick. Last week leaders of the U.S. aircraft industry were locked in fierce competition for the privilege of building a "variable geometry" fighter that can stretch its wings at low speeds during take-offs and landings, or fold them like the predatory falcon for highspeed flights...
...days before Lolita made the girl-child a femme fatale, Barbara was in Chicago, toying with improvised variations on a theme called "Too Tempting to Men" with the Second City theater group. Now, at 25, she is a woman playing a girl, a trick she accomplishes with such hilarity and grace that she has become more tempting than ever. Last week Alan Jay Lerner and Richard Rodgers signed her for the lead in their first musical together, and Sid Caesar is building the first of his new fall TV series around...
Your six diatribes against Mr. Pusey betray not only bad taste but also bad faith. It is an old journalistic trick to take statements out of context and blow them up to look like sensational truths. This is also a way of disguising falsehoods...