Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Festival's approach to Richard II is, fortunately, straight. Artistic director Jack Landau has departed; gone with him are the potato-chip and Venetian-blind settings, and the trick gimmicks. So we are spared a transplantation to Cuba with a Castro-Bolingbroke...
Shark Oil & Chutes. As missiles become more sophisticated, smaller pieces become more important to find; the White Sands recovery force is always alert for bright ideas that will help them find their quarry. One promising trick is to station seven or eight men with powerful telescopic theodolites on the edges of the impact area. They note the direction of the dust cloud raised by missile impact; then computation gives an accurate...
...deficiency" of $23.4 million. Merely to keep the line alive is certain to cost Hughes many millions more. And by decreeing that transactions between Hughes Tool Co. and Northeast may not exceed $100,000 a year without its specific approval, the CAB seems to have ruled out a lucrative trick that Hughes used to practice with Trans World Airlines: buying planes through Hughes Tool and then reselling them to the airline at a profit...
...dance, followed by a short intermission for breath-catching and flirting. The tune can be anything with an air and a beat, better if it is something everybody knows, like Skip to My Lou Gal or Turkey in the Straw, Buffalo Gals or Darling Nellie Gray. The real trick is knowing what the caller means and picking it up fast when he sounds off with: "Bend the line and Dixie chain . . . Strip the gears and do-se-do." Or even the famed (in New England) Doodar- call to the tune of De Camptown Races...
...bitter pills in a sugary mass of art reproductions, smiling faces, and photographs of tractors, hoping that the unwary victim will swallow the whole glop at once. But, alas, the medicine is not very well concealed, and it is hard to imagine anyone falling for such a crude trick...