Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...During one dove-season exhibition of trick shooting last week, Pistol Marksman Milo Ploof tragically missed two balloons tied to his daughter's head and killed...
...wife settled in Los Angeles in 1938. One of the first was to design a new studio for Paramount. In preparation for it, Pereira characteristically learned so much about the movies that he became Paramount's art director?and won a 1942 Oscar for his trick photography in Cecil B. De Mille's Reap the Wild Wind. Later, as a full-fledged producer, he made two successful films for R.K.O...
...Rope Trick. The crackdown in Saigon was duplicated all over South Viet Nam, and more than 1,000 people were imprisoned. In the Buddhist stronghold of Hué, the approach of government troops was signaled by the beating of temple drums and the clashing of cymbals calling for help. Beating pots and pans to rouse their neighbors, the angry populace poured from homes and raced to defend the city's temples. At Tu Dam Pagoda, monks tried to burn the coffin of a priest who had burned himself alive in the Buddhist suicide protest wave. But government soldiers, firing...
Hard Work, Plus. After their stunning win at the 1932 Olympics, the grinning Japanese coaches let U.S. reporters in on their none-too-startling secret of success. It was hard training that did the trick, they said. Last week, when Japanese reporters asked how it was done, U.S. Coach Ralph Casey came back with a similar bromide: "Hard work." But he added a postscript that boded ill for Japanese swimmers far beyond the day next year when this year's crop of young record breakers returns to Tokyo for the Olympics. "We have upwards of 600,000 swimmers under...
Three years of experimentation have led him to a revolutionary new design for trick skis. After he won the National title with his light double square-ended skis, the Cypress Gardens Ski Company began to manufacture a line of Al Tyll-endorsed skis which have been in great demand by the experts...