Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ranks, acquired an enzyme and a dermatological firm, built four new foreign plants in four years, brought out several new products, including Chocks, a flavored, chewable vitamin for children. Booz, Allen predicted that Miles could thus double its sales and profits in ten years; Miles has actually done the trick far faster. Its sales have climbed from $51.5 million in 1956 to $118.5 million last year, and profits have nearly tripled...
...hours later Race Horse was arrested, after he bragged at a crap game that he had conned the mayor of Selma. He was charged with grand larceny by trick. Police contacted Smitherman and Pilcher, and they allowed as how they were missing some money...
...Astros only hit 70 home runs last year, and in the new ballpark it was all they could do just to get the ball out of the infield. Finally, in the eighth inning, Hofheinz gave up, growled an order-and the giant Scoreboard did its home-run trick. Lights flashed, skyrockets soared, gongs sounded, whistles shrieked, bells rang. Two cowboys appeared on the huge screen, firing six-guns, followed by a steer with a U.S. flag on one horn and the Lone Star on the other. Hofheinz sighed happily. "Nobody can ever see this," he said, "and still think that...
Tugging at hems has been a feminine wile ever since skirts got off the floor, but more and more U.S. girls are now looking for a new parlor trick. Their skirts are soaring so high that no amount of hemming and hauling could help them hide those inches above the knee. Sometimes it does not seem they are even trying. Recently imported from Paris, the short, short skirt has been gleefully adopted by the avant-garde among U.S. teen-agers and coeds as the perfect complement to patterned stockings and leather boots-usually white. From San Francisco coffeehouses to Manhattan...
There was "Arizona Jimmy" Moore, wearing cowboy boots with his tuxedo, and Onofrio Lauri, whose favorite trick is to polish his bald pate with a handkerchief so that it will reflect the table lights into the eyes of his opponents. There, too, was Irving Crane, who in one year at Hobart College learned mostly how to run a rack so fast that his friends call him "Machine Gun." Luther ("Wimpy") Lassiter was on hand, cheerfully admitting that he has not done an honest day's work since he earned "810 an hour" delivering groceries at 15. Once Lassiter spotted...