Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Modern bomber-plane crews know just what to do when their receivers pick up the pings of an enemy radar. They transmit pings of their own designed to confuse an oncoming fighter or trick an attacking missile into veering toward empty air. Such sophisticated electronic countermeasures may be the latest thing in aerial warfare, say Entomologists Dorothy C. Dunning and Kenneth D. Roeder of Tufts University, but the idea is not at all new to non-human flyers. For millions of years, shifty moths have been using similar sound-pulsing stunts to protect them selves from marauding bats...
Roeder and Dunning are not quite sure why the trick works. The moth's sounds may convey the message that the sender is not good to eat, or in some way they may deceive the bat's echo-location system. Whatever the moth clicks do, they are as effective as any man-made radar jammer...
...Trick: Go Slow. Some school systems have caught on to the problem and worked out ways to overcome it. A Detroit official says the trick is to go slow: "We began five years ago with only twelve schools and a handful of teachers, and have no target date for all our 225 elementary schools." Now 78 of Detroit's schools teach new math in Grades 4, 5 and 6. Of the 3,500 teachers in the system, 700 have attended new-math seminars and courses on Saturdays, encouraged by $15-a-day payments. Aggravating the shortage of new-math...
...Trick & Zip. Greyhounds usually start racing at the age of 18 months, after anywhere from four to six months of training. Explains one handler: "You begin by tying a live, kicking rabbit to the end of a pole. You swing the pole around, keeping the rabbit just ahead of the pup. He gets real anxious, and finally you let him catch the rabbit." Next, the dog graduates to chasing a plastic bunny -like Swifty, the mechanical rabbit at the track. Bad habits show up early, and they are often impossible to correct. The classic case is a greyhound named Terris...
...first line of Baldy Smith, Jorge Gonzales, and Dennis McCullough accounted for six of Harvard's weekend goals. Gonzales scored three times against St. Lawrence, almost certainly becoming the first Puerto Rican ever to get a hat trick in American collegiate hockey...