Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...usually fatal before adulthood, has an inherited enzyme defect that damages the oxygen-exchange cells in his lungs and reduces the elasticity of the lung walls. He does not breathe enough air in, nor let enough out. His windpipe and lungs become clogged with thick viscid mucus. The trick is to loosen and thin this mucus...
...Language of Money. The newly aroused British could teach even the hardselling U.S. trader a trick or two. One steel-products maker, Brockhouse Trading Facilities, found that its export manager, Reg Parkes, had been an R.A.F. pilot, bought him a small plane for calling on Continental customers. Wilkinson Sword Ltd., the blademaker, now treats the British market simply as part of Europe, and salesmen travel to Milan or Hamburg as casually as to Glasgow...
What comes through the book, more than anything else, is the extreme bitterness between the nation's wartime Senate and the U.S. Commander in Chief. On the soldier-vote bill, Senate critics were convinced that F.D.R. was merely trying another trick to gain votes for his fourth-term reelection. Drury quotes a dissident Senator: "Roosevelt says we're letting the soldiers down. Why, God damn him. The rest of us have boys who go into the Army and Navy as privates and ordinary seamen and dig latrines and swab decks, and his scamps go in as lieutenant colonels...
...Gary Wood is nearing the end of a distinguished career in which he has excelled in about everything but winning. His major records include career rushing (1,641 yards) and total offense (3,150). Recently he displayed a cunning usually seen only at Dartmouth when he used a trick play to destroy Brown 25 seconds before the end of the game...
...naked humans their husbands have shot. The survivors are put in cages in the local laboratory, and Mérou finds that his dim-witted cellmates take weeks to learn to salivate when the keeper blows a whistle at mealtimes and never really catch on to the trick of piling boxes on one another to get the tasty reward offered by the simian scientists. Mérou, however, dumfounds the experts with his speed and disconcerts them by learning the simian language, something that no human has ever done before...