Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...learned to use right-handed scissors with ease. At dinners, when seated next to a righthander, I automatically keep my left elbow close to my side when eating to avoid bumps-and when things are too close at a table, I switch to eating with my right hand, another trick I taught myself long...
...poet's concerns, for the most part, trick the reader into seeing life afresh, as when he remarks that his nose is growing...
...Though he is leading the division in scoring, he rated the honor simply on the basis of one remarkable performance against the Philadelphia Flyers earlier this season. After scoring one goal in the first period, he netted two more in the second period to turn a hat trick for the first time in his N.H.L. career. "I dove into the net for that puck to save it as a memento," he recalls. As it happened, it was a slightly premature gesture. In the remaining minutes, Red slammed home three more goals to become the first N.H.L. player in 24 years...
...four goal third period in their 8-3 win over Dartmouth's freshmen earlier yesterday. The Yardlings scored two goals in the first minute of the last period--Bill Holmes to Lief Rosenberger and then Rosenberger to Holmes--to break open the contest. Center Bob Havern had a hat trick in the victory--Harvard's tenth against one loss...
...routines and big, glittering production numbers ("lavish" was the Depression word for them). One clever device is a movable frame inside the proscenium that makes the stage even smaller than it is, so that it can then be expanded to produce the illusion of large-scale operations. Another nice trick is one pair of panels at stage center that slide open to reveal a Chinese opium den, and still another pair that revolve to present canted mirrors, giving the tiny chorus line something of that old Busby Berkeley thundering herd effect...