Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Polk County District Judge Theodore H. Miller had a small problem. He was accidentally locked outside his chambers in Des Moines, Iowa. While a defendant and his attorney patiently waited, Miller summoned the janitor, who tried every trick he knew to unlock the door: a passkey, a credit card, even a small drill. No luck...
...East they cover it with ivy, so you can't see the buildings falling apart. People tend to think these places are too important to wear out." But in maintenance, a stitch in time means long-term salvation. Says William Massy, a vice president at Stanford University: "The trick is to put small amounts of money in early, before the sewer backs up or the lights go out." But, Keith Spalding, president of Franklin and Marshall College, points out, "very few private colleges depreciate their buildings. It is tempting to balance the budget by failing to fix the roof...
...discussed the evening's topics: who had come with who, a new chemical that had surfaced recently and how well it did the trick; boring and idle talk. The bartender, a young and subdued blond, asked me about the U.S.; he listened, cynical. I became the amusement that evening, still out of place. Everyone treated me kindly and with great, although not exaggerated politeness. I felt like a doll in a clean white dress that a child proudly offers to the admiring grownups for inspection...
...Scale, Society Causes of Illness is not easy to read. But it is worthwhile for doctors and patient! Both can be notorious for rushing to the pillbox when alternative methods ar preferable. As Totman points out, any one can tell when he is sick, even a la man. The trick is to determine why, an to treat the nonmicrobial causes of illness as well. - Peter Stoler
...hell is he? Is he God? Is he sent by God? Is he a moron? Or what?" The point, for Sellers, is that Chance is one of the meek who are supposed to inherit the earth, and actually does just that by being his simple self. That is the trick Sellers has once again pulled off, keeping his own essential blankness intact behind his multitude of masks. This interpretation stands the intended meaning of Kosinski's fable on its ear. If Sellers' vision of the character becomes gospel for a new generation, a certain concern is justified. "They see themselves...