Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gingerich managed to include a clever trick in each of his lectures--whether it was allowing each of the more than 200 students in the class to handle a chunk of plutonium or showing a film of an eclipse set to the tune of "Here Comes...
...have emerged from this world have the ring of tales by escaped adventurers from a savage land. Danny Sanders of Brooklyn has spent 13 of his 35 years behind bars. Now he works for the Fortune Society, a group that helps ex-convicts. "When we were robbing people, the trick was to get the money without hurting anybody. Now the kids brag about hurting their victims." Danny claims that he has never backed down from a fight in his life, but he is skittish about this new generation. A group of teenagers recently demanded money from him while he waited...
Gingerich managed to include a clever trick in each of his lectures--whether it was allowing each of the more than 200 students in the class to handle a chunk of plutonium or showing a film of an eclipse set to the tune of "Here Comes...
Gingerich managed to include a clever trick in each of his lectures--whether it was allowing each of the more than 200 students in the class to handle a chunk of plutonium or showing a film of an eclipse set to the tune of "Here Comes...
Once a loud, murky place of grime and steam, like Monet's Gare SaintLazare, the cleaned-up St. Louis train shed has had a shopping mall and a new six- story hotel tucked inside. It is the architectural equivalent of the boat in the bottle, but the trick satisfies. The owners might have built a high- rise; fortunately, they deferred to the steel ceiling and let the architects, Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum, spread the new buildings out. Planes and walls jag fetchingly, as in real cities. Rounding a corner or descending a stair, / there are architectural surprises. Store names...