Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jadotville. But there was no turning back on the basic decision that had been made. Katanga's Secessionist President Moise Tshombe had used every sly trick in the book to frustrate efforts to reunite his rebellious, copper-rich province with the rest of the Congo. Now, U.N. Secretary-General U Thant, with U.S. encouragement, was determined to end the Katanga problem once and for all. The occasion happened to be the collapse of discipline among Tshombe's boozy, ragtag 20,000-man gendarmerie. When they began shooting at U.N. soldiers in Katanga a fortnight ago, the U.N. replied...
...collection of essays written over the last ten years, Macdonald argues that American standards are threatened in a new and peculiar way. In times gone by, highbrow culture was clearly distinguished from lowbrow; today the two have been blurred by what Macdonald calls "Midcult." "In Masscult," he writes, "the trick is plain: to please the crowd by any means. But Midcult has it both ways; it pretends to respect the standards of high culture while in fact it waters them down and vulgarizes them...
Actors start playing the match trick-lighting a match and holding it until it burns their fingers, thus distracting the audience's attention from another actor. The geometries of their love affairs become hopelessly complicated, and morale is chewed up by cliques, gossip, and fierce little jealousies. Meanwhile, the washed and eager faces out front are sitting on upholstery that may be wearing out, but is still worth about $9.60 a square foot. After hearing of this great musical for months and months, they have finally taken out a second mortgage and bought tickets, and what do they...
...like big box office too. And onstage, not one of the successful succeeders has yet tried the match trick...
...year were $9,200,000, and 1962 promises to be even better. The travel business has bounced back from a slowdown last year, and even Amexco's credit card operation, a consistent money loser since its introduction in 1958, has finally moved into the black. To turn the trick, Clark a year ago increased credit card dues from $6 to $8 a year, tightened credit and ordered his 100-man security force to pick up cards from deadbeats...