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Word: tricking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Answering questions like those--usually by strapping themselves into the cockpit and mashing the accelerator--is what the sport is all about for drag racers. Garlits, 54, is still miffed about a trick transmission he built that blew off half his right foot on just such a run in 1970. But it doesn't discourage him when misguided people tell him some new idea is crazy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Florida: Old-Fashioned Ingenuity on Wheels | 4/21/1986 | See Source »

...Thousand Faces as easily as the irascible ship's captain in Mister Roberts. His performance as Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream inspired Director Max Reinhardt to label him the "best actor in Hollywood." White Heat contains a typical bit of Cagney , business, less a trick than a nuance. He had the killer Cody Jarrett sit, for just a second, in his mother's lap. It was a gesture worth pages of exposition, mined from the same instinct that made Cagney what he would never admit he was: a consummate actor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It Was All Big - and It Worked:James Cagney: 1899-1986 | 4/14/1986 | See Source »

...rule, Harvard professors with tenure do not accept appointments from other universities. Generally speaking, no incentives could persuade professors to make a move--neither more money, nor subsidized housing, nor a chaired position can do the trick...

Author: By Jennifer L. Mnookin, | Title: Married to Their Careers | 4/9/1986 | See Source »

Malone said translating nationwide Republican success into success in Massachusetts was "not so much targeting prticular groups as trying to erase the image that we can't win. We can win. No trick plays, just the basics with full time leadership...

Author: By Emil E. Parker, | Title: Republican Party Gears Up For State Convention | 4/8/1986 | See Source »

...move from triples to triple crowns. The American League saw back-to-back triple crowns in the mid 60's when Frank Robinson and Carl Yastrzemski turned the trick in 1966 and '67, respectively. But the National League hasn't seen a triple crown winner in a much longer time. Ten points if you can name the last NL player to accomplish that feat...

Author: By Geoffrey Simon, | Title: 1986 Sports Cube Baseball Trivia Quiz | 4/5/1986 | See Source »

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