Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crimson decided the trick had gone far enough. As Bill Madden of the Elis threw a pass to teammate Mare Landrum. Harvard made the ball go off Landrum's hand and out of bounds. After Bob Bowditch made a final free throw, the crowd filed out, content. Little did they know that the whole drama was a masterful Harvard trick...
...meet he collapsed in the locker room, but not until he had anchored both winning relays for the Crimson and taken first place in the hundred. Even with an upset stomach the Olympic veteran walked off with two pool records and three first place laurels against Yale--quite a trick, even for Hunter...
...Neat Trick. "Claire McAuley" was married in the church at the age of 18, and two years later, "after a series of misfortunes which eventually saw my legal, valid husband behind bars and bigamously married to another," her bishop granted her permission to get a civil divorce. Thus at 20, the mother of a small son, she found herself legally free but ecclesiastically still married. When she met the man she "realized was the one with whom I should spend the rest of my life," she was confident God understood that her first marriage had not been a marriage...
...loved. In an agony of conscience, she appealed again and again to her parish priest. She had never heard of the brother-sister vow, but had come to the conclusion that she and John could stay together if only they avoided "adultery," i.e., sex ("A neat trick, if you happen to be quite young, quite normal, and very much in love"). Her priest obviously felt the trick was all but impossible; he offered her no hope of returning to full Communion, short of breaking up her life with John...
...City Center almost every character has his amusing bag of tricks, while Robert Hirsch, as Scapin, is something extra and something different. Looking lithe, gamin, even apache in a very modern way, Hirsch is fun-loving but hardbitten, a kind of acrobatic con man, up to every trick, on to every wile, physically all bounce, mentally all barbed wire. Hirsch's Scapin seems even more resourceful than Molière's, and on a stage full of antique, chattering magpies and grinning dolls and grimacing puppets, he is a kind of unpredictable mechanical toy with, at moments, shock...