Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Scientists could only observe and record the pattern of devastation, and pile up data against the day when they may learn how to trick a hurricane into sub mission. One thing the weathermen could claim credit for now: their accurate, timely alarm. Carla did enormous property damage, perhaps a billion dollars' worth, but took few lives. The well-warned people of coastal Louisiana and Texas had fled to safety in the greatest mass exodus in U.S. history. Only a comparative few were killed. There was no mass tragedy as when Hurricane Audrey flooded Cameron, La., in 1957 and killed...
...wellappointed bachelor apartment, the stereo rig replaced the traditional etchings as a lure for the nubile. His costly equipment consisted of two speakers, two amplifiers, a special cartridge for his record player, as well as an assortment of optional gear. His stereo library was comprised mainly of trick noises and demonstration records -drum recitals, incoming tides (on the flip side: outgoing tides), the sound of an olive dropping into a martini, an album called Music to Listen By, a Ping-pong game in which the illusion of the moving ball was vivid enough to make a listener's head...
Madison Avenue's first assault on human cupidity, Toynbee asserts, is by finesse. "The strategy is to try to captivate us without allowing us to become aware of what is being done to us. If this sly approach does not do the trick, Madison Avenue has further psychological weapons in its armory. If all else fails, it will resort to sheer bullying." Then Dr. Toynbee reaches a startling conclusion: "I would suggest that the destiny of our Western civilization turns on the issue of our struggle with all that Madison Avenue stands for more than it turns...
...Special. As such, he sets the theme for almost everything Salinger has written since Catcher. Most men know how to ignore, suppress or outwit the occasional suspicion that the world is really not to be borne?but the young, the mad. and the saints do not know the trick. To varying degrees, most Salinger characters, includinging those in Franny and Zooey, belong in these three categories. Strangely enough, the young, slightly mad saints are also full of laughter...
...head, figuratively that is, in an effort to find bills to introduce that purported to save money, even going so far as to introduce and claim $4 billion in savings for a bill which had passed the Senate before he was sworn in. This is a nice trick...