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Word: tricking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Abandoning the Fight. Many of the nonreligious groups, which see in draft resistance a means of opposing the war, are openly in business to find the easier ways. They look for legitimate deferments a man might have but not be aware of, sometimes aid him in discovering a "trick knee," "asthmatic condition" or "homosexual tendencies" that he might never have known existed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Protests: Beating General Marsbars | 9/8/1967 | See Source »

...mean John Lennon and Paul McCartney, who write nearly all the words and tunes, and producer George Martin, who writes the rest of what you hear on the record. Martin knows all the musical technique anyone will ever need: as a musicologist, he has at is command every classical trick in the book, as a record producer, he knows how to make piano strings sound like the winds of Hell. He can conjure up anything the Beatles call for, and he is responsible for many of the "wee bits" in Sgt. Pepper...

Author: By Billy Shears, | Title: Sgt. Pepper's One and Only | 8/22/1967 | See Source »

...just like a junkie." She may become even more like a junkie. Many pimps double as pushers and give samples to their protegees. Eventually, the majority of the girls, thanks to their pimps, wind up as hopeless narcotics addicts, working New York's slum flophouses for 50? a "trick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York: Hooker's Market | 8/18/1967 | See Source »

...dealt his old adversary Barnett a similar blow by endorsing him: "Leaving out race, the Barnett ticket is the one that will bring the Negro out of political obscurity and into political significance not only in Mississippi, but in the nation." Barnett immediately blasted it as a political trick. Meredith sounds convincingly sincere as he travels through Mississippi, ruining Barnett by saying that none of the candidates offer any real attraction to Negroes, but that Barnett has shown an industrial program that will provide jobs for Negroes...

Author: By B. J., | Title: The Mississippi Election Today | 8/8/1967 | See Source »

...That," says Republican State Executive Secretary Truman Altenbaumer, "is what I call a real slick trick." The Republicans claim that the house cost at least $250,000, plus $60,000 to furnish, keep wondering aloud where the money came from. "Let 'em wonder," says Faubus, who insists that it cost only $100,000 and carries a $75,000 mortgage. "When the time is ripe, I'll explode all their myths...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arkansas: Orval's Pad | 8/4/1967 | See Source »

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