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Word: tricking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This trick can put us over on Broadway." Vincent Price in The Mad Magician...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 12, 1968 | 7/12/1968 | See Source »

...years of his military career in special services, playing in tournaments in Japan, Formosa and the Philippines. Mustered out in 1961, he went back to his old driving-range job and supplemented his income by hustling suckers for bets at Dallas' Tenison Municipal Golf Course. His favorite trick was to play with an adhesive-wrapped soft drink bottle instead of a club. "I used a Dr. Pepper bottle," says Lee, "because it is smooth, while a Coke bottle is rough. I used the family size, the quart bottle. People would bet me that I couldn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Golf: The Man & the Myth | 6/28/1968 | See Source »

...lettered sign: THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING. At the far end of the ice-making machine stood a man with a gun. Later, a witness was to say that the young man had been there for some time, asking if Senator Kennedy would come that way. It was no trick getting in; there was no serious attempt at security screening by either the hotel or the Kennedy staff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A LIFE ON THE WAY TO DEATH | 6/14/1968 | See Source »

...have gone too far in their partnership with Moro to reverse direction now. But the coalition's survival depends largely on a program reformist enough to restore confidence in the Socialists without undermining the Christian Democrats' and Republicans' new-found support from the right. A neat trick, if it can be done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy: No to Everybody | 5/31/1968 | See Source »

...WITH much the same logic that Martin Kilson, assistant professor of Government, attempts to point up the paradox of black power today. The Journal, to its credit, has beaten Encounter to the news stands with Kilson's views on the subject. Kilson calls black power a "confidence trick" played at the expense of the Negro lower classes. He claims it "seeks a leverage on power in face of abject powerlessness." But Kilson's article is not a mere sideswipe. Behind the article is an as yet unexplored theory which holds that among the ghetto's natural entrepreneurs--the numbers runners...

Author: By Seth Lipsky, | Title: The Harvard Journal of Negro Affairs | 5/29/1968 | See Source »

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