Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Strategy. Nasser last week tried a lover's trick to split his foes: he began wooing Syria's Baathist ally, Iraq. In a coaxingly worded invitation, Nasser urged Iraq's President Abdul Salam Aref to visit Cairo "to see personally how much the Egyptian people like you and their Iraqi brothers." Though known to have pro-Nasser sympathies, Aref played it safe by politely refusing the invitation, and pointedly phoned Syria's Bitar to assure him of Iraq's support...
...McLean,* owner of the famed Hope diamond and estranged wife of the Washington Post publisher. She was a friend of the Lindberghs, and of course would be overjoyed if she could help find the baby. Just leave it to me, said Smiling Gaston. All he needed to turn the trick was $104,000 ($100,000 for the kidnapers, $4,000 for expenses). But this would be a highly secret caper, he warned. He gave Mrs. McLean a code name, "11." He would be "27." A U.S. naval officer and a Roman Catholic priest, whom Means brought into the plans...
Larry Korb came out of retirement to take a fourth place in the men's jumping event. Larry's specialty, however, is the trick event...
...American Water-Ski Association assigns point values to each trick and, in two 20-second passes, the skier attempts to combine as many difficult tricks...
Once again Al Tyll proved that his speed is unbeatable in the trick event. The National champion and recent winner of the Masters title added the North American crown to his laurels. Although his planned trick run of 3399 points was comfortably above his own Eastern record, Al lost 53 points to finish with 3346, only nine points below the record...