Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cyrus Booker, with 23 counters, and Mike Stenhouse, with 17, led the scoring parade, but it was a quintessential team effort--with Glenn Fine, Bobby Allen, Roosevelt Cox, Bob Hooft and Gary Ackerman playing supporting roles--that did the trick...
...Emerald City. At the end of his appearance, he called for contributions to the IMF-the International Magicians' Fund, that is-and beamed: "You just wave a wand and suddenly find your pockets stuffed with money." Now, if only he could get the British economy to do that trick...
...diversified operation. In addition to gas stations and travel agencies in the New York area, he held investments in two federally insured housing projects in Detroit and Cleveland. The use of respectable fronts and legitimate businesses is a time-honored Mafia ploy, and according to police, Barnes learned that trick and many others from the late Brooklyn mobster "Crazy Joey" Gallo when they were in prison together in 1965. (Barnes served five years on a narcotics conviction, which was overturned on appeal...
...case for the plausibility of the supernatural. In The Screwtape Letters (1942), his witty little classic, Lewis has a veteran devil advise on how to ensnare souls for "Our Father below." Small sins were often best. Quoth Screwtape: "Murder is no better than cards if cards can do the trick. Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual...
With freshman Liz Kelly kicking in a hat trick, the Harvard women's swim team powered its way to a 73-56 win over Boston University Saturday morning...