Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tredway got his trick at 16:32 when Harvard defensemen Jim Trainor and Alan Litchfield had trouble pushing the puck up ice. Nethery stole the disc at the red line and fed Tredway in unscathed for an easy goal...
...usual the "Green Line," consisting of center Tania Huber and wingers Meg Streeter and Sara Fischer, supplied most of the offense. Huber notched her second hat-trick of the year and an assist, all in the first period, while Streeter tallied twice as the Crimson grabbed victory number five in its last seven outings (including an exhibition triumph over Concordia...
History thus far has played a sort of perverse trick on Jimmy Carter. The long string of serious problems, while not calamitous enough to thrust him into a dramatic posture, has nevertheless deprived him of the kind of quiet era of national relaxation over which Dwight Eisenhower governed so benevolently. Carter is a Democratic President assigned by the times to preside not over the sharing of wealth and prosperity, but over the setting of limits. In international affairs, he is forced to accept responsibility for events beyond Washington's control...
...rifles last October and told a visitor why he had become a firearms expert with the guerrillas who are fighting the Somoza dynasty: "I tried to save the situation in a Christian manner, in the pacifist sense of social promotion, but I realized that all this was a big trick." Two months later, the Nicaraguan National Guard announced that Garcia had been slain in combat...
...change--or change easily--because the institutional inertia of 340-plus years of imagined immortality will not permit that. And so the students who cry out to change Harvard actually find themselves faced with a much more difficult problem: making sure that Harvard does not change them. The trick becomes one of accepting the education the institution offers without surrendering to the arrogant complacency it breeds. It is, as they say, quite a neat trick...