Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After climbing three more, Kangchenjunga (28,169 ft.), Gasherbrum II (26,361 ft.) and Broad Peak (26,401 ft.), it seemed that he had exhausted the possibilities. Or had he? "It was in 1982," he says, "after my hat trick, after the first time I was able to climb three mountains in one season, that I understood it was easy, or at least it was possible, for one human being to climb all the highest mountains in the world, all 14 eight- thousanders, in a lifetime...
...boys and girls, the charms of blasphemy and dirty words never wear off. Joyce might have thought he was attacking his old Irish Catholicism in his novels, but Irish Catholics, who've made him a national hero since, know better. Perhaps it's single-sex schooling that does the trick...
...historic opportunity to eliminate nuclear weapons on a scale previously unimagined, in order to hold out for an SDI program the effectiveness of which is questionable. We should look again at the offer. Just because Gorbachev is associated with the proposal does not mean that it is a trick. He has his own needs and pressures and it may well be that the cost of holding out for SDI is not worth the cost of forsaking the proposals which came so close to being accepted in Iceland...
...Navy game resulted in a 0-0 tie, so to find the last time Harvard lost three shutout games in a season, one must go all the way back to 1935, when Holy Cross, Army, and Princeton all turned the trick...
Elizondo, a junior, kept up the torrid pace Saturday morning with his third consecutive hat trick in Harvard's narrow 6-5 victory over the University of Massachusetts. Kaiser said that his only disappointment was that the Crimson "didn't beat UMass as badly as [it] should have...