Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Double was suggested by a trick played by British intelligence in World War II, when it prevailed upon a smalltime character actor to impersonate Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery during a "secret tour" of North Africa-to convince the Germans that an Allied invasion would be launched from that area. Danny starts out as a U.S. private lent to the British army "to show them how to open Spam." Being on a fat-free, salt-free, low-calorie, highprotein, low-cholesterol diet, Danny skips meals, and passes the time impersonating "Satchmo," Churchill and Adolf Hitler. Intelligence catches his act, notes...
Carefully avoiding the risk of a fight with Congress, Dillon got a Justice Department ruling that has enabled him to nudge down long-term interest rates without affecting short-term levels-a trick his predecessors thought impossible without new laws. The ruling: bonds could be sold at less than their face value, thereby automatically hiking the interest rate. Beyond that, by establishing friendly, first-name relations with William McChesney Martin Jr., cautious boss of the Federal Reserve Board, Dillon smoothed the path for the Reserve's new policy of buying long-term Treasury notes and bonds rather than just...
...unemployment remains so high (11 per cent), the improvement is unlikely to occur. This again illustrates how important is the interaction between our relations with Canada and Canada's role in the free-world "partnership." Neither goodwill nor Jackie Kennedy's beauty amidst the Ottawa tulips will do the trick...
...understand that this program was but a beginning for more ambitious things to come next year. The concert showed much of the desire and ability necessary to make the band a real wind ensemble, but the group will need better music if it is to pull the trick...
Explosion. From all the evidence, killers do a fairly effective job if applied properly. Since the chemicals kill all seed, whether weed or good grass, the trick is to sow grass lawns in the early fall only, and to apply pre-emergent chemicals in the spring. By that time, all the good grass will have caught hold, and the killer chemicals will attack only the germinating seeds-the crab grass and other undesirable weeds-that remain. Even if used properly, however, the killers may cause some harmful side effects...