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Word: tricking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wouldn't this be a disservice to Washburn? Shouldn't a man in Washburn's position be given an opportunity to reaffirm himself in society's eyes? A little community service should do the trick--say a little less than a week a month at the YMCA or local Boy's Club...

Author: By Robert Q. Mcmanus, | Title: When Rapists Go Free | 11/1/1988 | See Source »

...TRICK-OR-TREAT POLL. Card shops around Brevard County, Florida, a G.O.P. stronghold and home to the Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral, are having difficulty maintaining their stocks of a Halloween card with a political tinge. BUSH WINS declares a newspaper headline on the front, while the inside * reads, "This is the scariest card I could find. Happy Halloween." A version with the headline DUKAKIS WINS is hardly selling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grapevine: Oct. 31, 1988 | 10/31/1988 | See Source »

George Bush pocketed a labor endorsement yesterday and said his drive for the White House was "all about creating jobs and opportunity." Underdog Michael Dukakis retorted that Bush's plan to slash the capital gains tax was a treat for the rich "and a trick for the rest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Candidates Trade Barbs on Economics | 10/28/1988 | See Source »

...their first tiff as husband and wife. Eventually, she stops sulking and joins him. "Dropping to her knees," Exley writes, "she grasped my bare thighs and begged me to please, please, please remove the grilling fork from my chest." Exley, in other words, is up to the same trick he demonstrated in A Fan's Notes (1968) and Pages from a Cold Island (1975): spinning out fanciful autobiographical legends that regularly leave the author skewered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Surreal Odyssey | 10/24/1988 | See Source »

...also completed a hat trick against Princeton his freshman year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mr. Consistency | 10/20/1988 | See Source »

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