Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Uncannier Goaltending: Harvard's Charley Petersen and the Eagles Joe Mullen must have both come off the ice after the game saying the same thing, "I should've had at least one hat trick!" Although Mullen did score once early in the opening stanza, Crimson netminder Brain Petrovek seemed to be saving his best stops all night for the Boston College winger...
...calm by beating Princeton, 3-0, but Dartmouth was not quite as fortunate. One of the many teams involved in the heated battle for the playoffs, the Big Green managed to be tied by one of the few teams not involved. Tim Taylor's "proud" Yale team turned the trick, 5-5, in a regionally televised ECAC contest...
THIS SPECULATION leads to the prophecies of a Cassandra, but the prospect of statehood does evoke ghoulish images. The cruellest trick for exterminating coyotes on the western ranges is to freeze a compressed spring inside a chunk of horsemeat. When the greedy animal gulps it down, his body heat melts the ice and the spring expands, piercing his stomach. It may seem expedient now to offer statehood to Puerto Rico rather than be discredited internationally as colonialists; to many Puerto Ricans it seems equally comfortable to be swallowed by the wealthiest best on earth. Ford could go down in history...
...trick, damn it, an evil plot to make someone around here look stupid. Like me. But it won't work, because you can't intimidate one who has eaten mystery meat for six years now so easily...
...wait. People will fall for the old stock-plot trick once, never twice. Voila, a new ingredient. Harry's getting soft. Not on the crooks, mind you, they still get their just deserts. On himself. That's right, there's a woman in this one, and Harry falls for her (and she for him). As if to underscore the new factor of emotional involvement as opposed to simple animal passion, the usual scenes of sexual conquest are conspicuous only by their absence. The substitutes, however, are much better than the originals. The scene where Harry tells his partner, Inspector Moore...