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Word: tricking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that some M-16 failures may result from a weak spring in the magazine. Though the M-16 clip can hold up to 21 rounds, Marine Corps Commandant Wallace Greene recommends loads of no more than "17 or 18 rounds." Some Marines have used an old World War II trick to speed up reloading: they tape two magazines together upside down; after one magazine is burnt out, it can be swiftly inverted and the other inserted. The added weight of the second magazine, however, is enough to draw the lip of the first magazine out of true, and can lead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Defense: Under Fire | 6/9/1967 | See Source »

...Delaware, Dave Cutler, who can identify more than 200 birds by song alone, led his five-man team over 500 miles of rainswept back roads. Armed with a supply of cherry bombs (to startle sleeping birds into song) and a portable tape player programmed with 42 different calls (to trick them into answering), the team identified 187 species...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Outdoors: Getting the Bird | 6/2/1967 | See Source »

Nearly all Americans want to end the war in Viet Nam as quickly as possible, but few of us believe that running off at the mouth and carrying homemade signs will do the trick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 26, 1967 | 5/26/1967 | See Source »

...Honey Pot is yet another modern-day version of Ben Jonson's classic, Volpone. Written in 1606, the Elizabethan comedy chronicles the rise and fall of a wily miser who pretends to be dying in order to trick his equally greedy friends into bringing him costly deathbed gifts. Each donor believes that he will be Volpone's sole beneficiary-a notion ironically dispelled when the miser's servant writes his own name into his boss's blank will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Outfoxed | 5/26/1967 | See Source »

...Family Day crowd got more than runs galore for their money. Harvard chipped in four miscues, bringing the game total to 13. Harvard captain Joe O'Donnell pulled off Harvard's third hidden ball trick of the season to help bail McCandlish out of an early jam, and the base umpire got hit in the shoulder by a line drive. Everyone agreed that he was just part of the field...

Author: By Richard D. Paisner, | Title: Harvard Nine Topples Crusaders Squad, 10-5 | 5/22/1967 | See Source »

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