Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Swift Spadework. Forest Lawn ran into homeowner opposition in both places but quelled it by a slick trick. Since "six or more bodies being buried in any one place constitute a cemetery" under California law. Forest Lawn shoved the bodies of six indigents underground overnight when it won preliminary cemetery permits in both towns. The residents thus had no chance to appeal. To head off Covina opposition, Forest Lawn bought the land last May un der an individual's name, filed the deed in its name last November, the same day that it filed rezoning requests with...
From blurb to backflap, P. G. never misses a Wodehouse trick. His names ("Oofy" Prosser is the villain, J. Sheringham Adair is the private eye) are felicitously goofy. His "floaters" ("I wouldn't kiss her with a ten-foot pole!") are a caution. His puns ("A fete worse than death") are outrageous. His hyperbole ("Carpets of so thick a nap that midgets would get lost in them and have to be rescued by dogs") is ingenious. His clichés ("The shot's not on the board, old dear") click with an exquisite remoteness in the modern...
However accurate his guess, Hall keeps his eyes focused on the puck, never tries the controversial trick of watching a shooter's eyes for the flicker that tips off the direction of the shot. To shove him self quickly around the cage, Hall pulls on the goal posts or the bar across the top of the net. When a shot actually comes, Hall has no time to think. He picks off the puck with anything handy-his padded chest, a skate, his flat, stubby stick or his huge left mitt. Says he: "Afterwards you have time to figure...
...goalie is making a lot of great saves"). He fusses constantly over uneven ice, since the slightest bump can deflect a puck over a stick and into the goal. Standing in the nets, Hall often seems to be racked with agonized sighs: "I breathe deeply trying to relax-a trick I learned from watching basketball players at the foul line...
...intellectuals, investment bankers, management experts and bright young men are taking over their Washington assignments. But it is already clear that a fascinating and power-laden quality is sadly lacking-and that is personal fervor, with all that it means in warmth, excitement and flair . . . The art or trick of leadership is not just rational action, but articulation of it in ways that reach the public's heart as well as mind. Kennedy seems almost to have set for himself the Talleyrand motto: 'Above all, no zeal...