Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...real Gross National Product rose only 1.5% in the first quarter. With the snow melted and miners back at work, Eckstein thinks real G.N.P. will show a catch-up surge of 7.5% from April through June. For the year, real G.N.P. is still likely to rise around 4.5%. The trick will be to keep inflation from speeding up in the spring as it did in the winter...
...Crimson went out like racehorses, rattling Mass. Maritime goalie Russ Wilson with six goals in the first 8:50 of the game. Faught commenced the pop-gun barrage with a tally on an assist from Hank Leopold, and Martin quickly followed with a first-quarter hat trick before Triton coach Bob Schillinglaw, in a futile attempt to regroup, called time-out at the nine-minute mark...
...Crimson now has two weeks in which to hone its technique before facing Syracuse away on April 15. In New York they will be trying to pull their annual trick of turning history upside down--sending the Orangemen fleeing like the Orangemen sent James...
...simply too long and too overacted. Because the tension snaps when the murderer is revealed, the rather contrived ending is out of place, and instead of dragging it out, as the directors do, the lights should almost immediately fade. A quicker ending would keep the audience speculating on the trick solution...
Christie, probably the most famous and certainly the most prolific of detective novelists, is the master of complex plots, ambiguous clues, and cardboard characters. Her stories are infamous for the trick endings--the sharp twist of plot indicting someone ostensibly cleared of suspicion or never suspected...