Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proof involved is essentially the same as that behind the common parlor trick of betting that in a group of 30 people, at least two will have the same birthday; in that case, the probability...
...little reason to expect a reversal of these trends in the near future. The Crimson's last stab at the top, in fact, was an ECAC semifinal date with the Terriers in March of '76. Following an 8-4 B.U. cakewalk, O'Callahan capped the evening with another hat trick of a statement: "Harvard's nice, but B.U.'s great." On that night, and in this sport, there was and still is no one to offer a dissenting opinion...
Most of the books fathered by the Viet Nam war and mothered by anxious publishers have been either captious collections of preconceptions or argumentative exercises in polemics. In Viet Nam, says Washington Post Reporter Ward Just, who covered the war there for 18 months, "it was no trick to find the facts to back up the impressions, or the preconceptions: facts were everywhere, and with suitable discrimination could be used to support almost any argument." To his credit, Just does not argue. To What End is an almost apolitical and unusually successful attempt to convey a sense of Viet...
...setting out to challenge Lyndon Johnson, those not exactly friendly colleagues Gene McCarthy and Bobby Kennedy are also challenging history. The last time an incumbent President was denied renomination was in 1884, when James G. Blaine turned the trick against Chester Arthur, and went on to lose the general election...
...fragilely beautiful study in symmetry; fiery Luis Fuente, 20, is built like a blockbuster and has the same impact; sinuous Trinette Singleton, 19, dances like a sensuous nymph out for a gambol; and then there is airborne Robert Blankshine, 19, who has mastered the neat little trick of sailing into the wings as he kicks the back of his head. They all help give the Joffrey Ballet its hallmark: go power plus grow power...