Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard student was approached by an uncostumed group of little trick or treaters. They said they were 16 years old. The oldest one and the biggest one each claimed exclusive rights to the treat offered...
...chemistry question asking the student to make up an extra-credit problem which only ten per cent of the class would be able to answer, and an English question asking the student to characterize himself in the style of different authors studied during the term. Both these are "trick" questions, and there is certainly no reason why every question on an examination should be quite so imaginative. But both questions are also educational, because they force the student to think. They require him to translate his arguments and facts into a new context. It is doubtful that a student...
...almost entirely on their own. Scripps-Howard papers do both, in a pattern as diversified as the U.S. press at large. Items: > Perennially third in a field of three papers, the tabloid Washington Daily News not only returns a tidy profit but has taught its bigger competitors a journalistic trick or two. Shrewdly leaving politics to the Post (Democratically inclined) and the Star (Republican), bulky, freckled Editor John O'Rourke beams his paper at the capital's sizable Negro population and the army of Government civil service workers, reaching them with some of the sprightliest headlines...
...ending of the 1962 classic carried a slightly familiar ring, the method used by the New Yorkers was as uncharacteristic of a Yankee team as pennant winners have been to the city of Boston (the '48 Red Sox did the trick for perhaps the last time ever). Strangely enough, pitching and defense rather than the traditional New York batting power stopped the Giants' bid for glory...
...RULE OF LAW: "The task of diplomacy is reconciliation, justice and order. I emphasize justice and order. They are the pillars of stability. Some people are suspicious ... as though the rule of law were a mere trick to freeze the status quo. It is quite the opposite. Its observance is the sine qua non of peaceful change. The rule of law is a lesson learned from centuries of human experience, from many mistakes and much suffering . . . Without it, we destroy one another...