Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From the company's viewpoint, the trick is not so much to invent something as to find practical uses for it. When Du Pont developed its new plastic, Surlyn, one customer cracked: "You've got the world's greatest answer. Now start looking for questions." Whenever one of its scientists does find a genie in a bottle, the company is quick to commit everything to exploit it: more scientists, plants, funds-and, importantly, more time and patience-than any other company...
...French culinary art is being suffocated by government intervention," said a Parisian restaurateur. Another suggested that there are ways to get around the order: "You want to increase the price of tournedos? All you have to do is christen it 'Cote de Boeuf Henri IV' and the trick is done...
...eyes, and murmured: "I see a man in a dusty pickup in the Southwest." Corporate peasants were left to do the rest, for Aubrey is no writer, just a would-be writer, as Miller describes him. And would-be writers "are like eunuchs in a harem. They see the trick done every night and are furious that they can't do it themselves." In the end, after Miller had rewritten Aubrey's story at least 3,000 times, Aubrey killed it forever, saying that he had never liked the idea anyway...
...fine. And realizing the financial problems of the non-profit Theatre Company of Boston, one can sympathetically accept the limitations of Mary Shepley's monotonously simple, cheezy costumes. It's a bit harder, however, to dismiss some lousy makeup work, most apparent when Karlen enters looking more like a trick-or-treater than a battered Caligula...
Njoku netted his hat trick (Harvard's first of the Ivy League season) on three powerful left-footed shots past the helpless Penn goalie. Sophomore center forward Jim Saltonstall, the Crimson's leading scorer, accounted for Harvard's other two goals, bringing his official season total to eight, including four in Ivy competition...