Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mate with a main spacecraft orbiting overhead. The problems involved are all but incredible. No space vehicles have yet accomplished rendezvous, even in earth orbit with bases near by and massive, quick-witted computers on hand to do their navigation. The Russians may have at least attempted the trick, but the U.S. has not, and it will not even make its first try until the lagging Gemini program goes into full operation-which will not be before...
...both host and intruder on a daily series of old one-reel comedies on WJW-TV. He wears a pointed, Satanic goatee, trick glasses and a horned hairdo-in the understandable hope that the adult community will not recognize him as Ernie Anderson, erstwhile announcer of commercials for power companies and banks...
...sensible thing to do, but at this late date it is a difficult thing to do in an original or even interesting way. In The Condemned of Altona, a five-act drama produced four years ago in Paris, Philosopher-Playwright Jean-Paul Sartre almost turned the trick. His play transformed turgid history into skillful theater and tired slogans into existential epigrams. This film, adapted freely from the drama, presents even more impressive credentials. It is directed by Vittorio De Sica. It stars, along with Fredric March and Robert Wagner, two 1961 Oscar winners: Sophia Loren and Maximilian Schell...
Kenneally's bill was trick legislation, intended to affect only the proposed MTA construction in Codman Square. But a law passed by the General Court would hamper the MTA throughout the Common-wealth, and the bill seemed so certain of passage that the MTA had to act to head...
Great Lies. Carson's trick was to become a tourist guide, and a more freewheeling, freeloading, freethinking travel agent there never was. A further device, for which the reader can be grateful, is to tell great lies about his adventures. There even seems to be some doubt about his real name, which he says is von Falkenhausen, though there are reports to which neither he nor his publisher refer, that it is actually Peter Brooke...