Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...owner of Chicago's moneymaking ($400,000 in gross sales last year, with an $86,000 profit) K. C. Card Co. Karnov introduced himself as "a manufacturer of perfect dice"; but he admitted that he devoted 21 pages of his catalogue to what he blandly called "trick dice or gaffed dice." Growled Arkansas Democrat McClellan: "The more com mon expression is crooked dice, isn't it?" Muttered Karnov: "I guess...
...occasionally some of the best-overwriting in journalism. This encouraged the notion, said Stanley Walker, ex-city editor of the New York Herald Tribune, in his book City Editor, "that all sports should be written in a bizarre patois, and that to use good English was a sissy trick...
Snopeses of San Lio. Though she acquires titles, Ippolita stems from a clan that was born below the stairs in other people's manors. The Raugeos are Italian versions of Faulkner's wily Snopeses, who grab, trick and weasel their way into the landed gentry. Befriending a Raugeo is as safe as petting a crocodile. Raised to overseer by a count, Ippolita's greatgrandfather snaps up all the nobleman's holdings to make the Raugeos the richest, and the meanest, landowners in the town of San Lio. He passes on the family faith: the land...
...maker in reasonably healthy shape is France's Sud-Aviation, which has already sold or contracted to sell 150 of its medium-range Caravelles and. with the aid of a husky government subsidy, should hit break-even well short of 200. Even subsidies have not turned the trick for Britain's jet manufacturers. De Havilland, which led the world with the original, ill-starred Comet, has sold only 63 of the redesigned Comet IVs. has scant hope of reaching its estimated break-even point of 80-90 sales. Vickers, which hopes to have its long-range...
...playing to anything but sellouts. Cliburn is something of a prisoner of his success: a man whose temperament and talent favors the romantic, he has recorded Schumann. MacDowell, Prokofiev and Beethoven. But his audiences often demand Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff. What he clearly needs to do now is learn the trick-invaluable to any artist-of occasionally saying no to the fans...