Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After the game, there was little doubt Taylor's decision to pass the buck had done the trick...
...love of beauty: "The White House is sparkling these days, and the meals are superb." Reagan, in response, quoted Eleanor Roosevelt: "I have never wanted to be a man. I have often wanted to be effective as a woman. But I never thought that trousers would do the trick." The audience of about 1,800 women, virtually none of them in pants, applauded, as they had applauded reminders that the Republican Party had been the party of Susan B. Anthony and the drive for suffrage...
...qualifies in first place. Because he can jump higher than any other diver (his vertical leap has been measured at 33 in.), he hangs in the air longer before he begins to fall toward the water. Quickness is the special talent of divers; their spins and somersaults are conjuring tricks that confuse the eye. Louganis alone is able to go beyond such dazzle to a majestic slowness that is no trick, but true magic. The most ignorant of spectators sees Louganis go off a springboard and thinks, "Oh, that's what it's all about." The experts...
There were more tricks, very often the same one over again. After he had performed a trick three times, Ali showed how it worked. He is not supposed to do this-very much against the magicians' code. He has been dropped from the Magic Castle, the official magicians' club. Ali pulled off a fake thumb. He explained: "It is a sin in my religion to deceive people." He has almost as much fun explaining the tricks as he has doing them...
...study in power, able to leap tall buildings with a single bound and do a full-twisting layout double Tsukahara (a maneuver only a few men in the world can perform) while she is at it. On the vault, she earned a 10 with that trick, which calls for pouncing onto the vault, then pushing into the stratosphere with her arms and twisting 360° while doing a double somersault with her body perfectly straight...