Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crafty Trick." In any case, Administration spokesmen continued their patient efforts to clarify and explain U.S. policy. Vice President Hubert Humphrey, who of late has acted as chief exponent of Administration aims in Asia, tried diligently to answer the dissenters on NBC-TV's Meet the Press. To criticism of U.S. bombing raids, he said: "We did not send our bombers against North Viet Nam until full regiments of the North Vietnamese forces were in the South, until it was recognized in every chancellery and every embassy around the world that the North Vietnamese had committed...
Since then, said the Vice President, the U.S. has had contact with the Ho Chi Minh regime-"through third parties" and at times "directly." Typical of Hanoi's response was a statement last week by Truong Chinh, a top party official, denouncing U.S. peace overtures as a "crafty trick...
...goes full throttle until after midnight. All day long, he phones, phones, phones. No notes, no memos, no conferences. "He's got a memory like a Pentagon computer," says Schlissel. "Carries it all in his head. Twenty, 30 projects at once. Never forgets a fact, never misses a trick." With his office in his head, Merrick is totally mobile. On an after-dinner impulse, he may dart into the street, grab a cab, race to Kennedy Airport, jump on a jet to London, snap up a property in Manchester, get back to New York in less than 48 hours...
Harvard's players had the edge on over-tricks but missed a crucial grand slam and five games. Harvard was content to play the 15 trick laydown grand slam in six clubs. Not all of the five missed games, however, can be blamed on the team's underbidding as two were only 25 per cent plays, not worth bidding when scoring by IMPs...
...George Royal's owner and $7,500 to Longden. But it was Johnny's last purse as a jockey. "I'm hanging up my tack," he announced. And so ended 44 years of riding horses for money, a career that began with county-fair trick riding in Canada and made Longden a millionaire. The mounts he rode earned their owners a grand total of $24,665,800. Not that retirement will make much difference in Longden's daily routine. He is taking a job as a trainer so that he can still get up each morning...