Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...allow current to flow through them without the slightest hindrance, as light flows through empty space. Superconducting wires, even though very thin, can carry large currents, so coils made of them should be able to generate very strong magnetic fields. But when scientists eagerly tried this obvious trick to increase magnetic strength, they discovered that it simply did not work: magnetism itself, even if only moderately powerful, destroyed the superconductive qualities of all materials that the scientists had tried...
...well and, from the Russian viewpoint, better than good. Even if the Soviet probe never comes anywhere near Venus, the U.S.S.R. can still claim another successful space first: launching an interplanetary vehicle from a circling earth-satellite. Although never before tried, the trick has long been discussed by satellite scientists, who agree that it has important advantages. If an interplanetary vehicle is carried piggyback on a satellite, its speed and direction can be measured accurately and unhurriedly while it is still on a "parking'' orbit. Then, far in advance, a point can be selected that will be best...
...feet out of the film, patched it together again without transition. The story can still be followed, but at each cut the film jerks ahead with a syncopated impatience that aptly suggests and stresses the compulsive pace of the hero's doomward drive. More subtly, the trick also distorts, rearranges, relativizes time-much as Picasso manipulated space in Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. All meaningful continuity is bewildered; the hero lives, like the animal he is, from second to second, kill to kill. A nasty brute. Godard has sent him to hell in style...
...expelled a year later for setting fire to a dean's mattress), shot and barbecued a member of the Magdalen College deer-park, and painted new pedestrian crosswalks in improbable places at the dead of night. Shortly after the last incident, the 'raggers' excelled themselves with a trick that required no physical effort...
...work on that section of road. Thereupon, the jokesters took off to the nearest police station where they informed the constabulary that some irresponsible undergraduates, masquerading as workmen, were tearing the road to pieces. The conspirators then hid. It didn't take long for both sides to discover the trick but the confusion was magnificent while it lasted...