Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Junior Lisa Black also turned in a hat trick. But the goals from sophomore Lucy Chubb and junior Trina Burnham were what set off the wild celebrations along the Harvard sideline...
...addition, the U.S will insist on the right to inspect for Soviet chemical weapons not only on "declared sites," where they are known to be manufactured, but anywhere it suspects they might be made. The Soviet news agency TASS immediately branded the offering "nothing short of a propaganda trick" and accused Reagan of trying to block an agreement "by making patently unacceptable conditions for 'verification' and 'enforcement...
Lines like this do not usually come from the mouths of adolescents. Powell solves the problem of false knowingness with the same narrative trick that Mark Twain and J.D. Salinger used. Simons recalls his adventures of the recent past from new surroundings: the playgrounds of Hilton Head, where alligators are more likely to appear on shirts than in backyards. The secret of his charm is that he is a precocious anomaly looking back on a raffish puberty: "A good gentry tyke in Cooper Boyd [a private school], headed shortly for St. Cecilia Society balls with a million Altalondine Jenkinses instead...
...young Simons. The important lessons come not from the books in the Doctor's library but from what he calls "the whole alphabet of worldly maneuver." At the Baby Grand he learns how to drink beers with folks who have an exaggerated sense of his importance. "The trick there," says the wily subteen, "is to accept a new can when anybody offers and let your old one get drunk by somebody else." He devises a successful "Boy Act," to unnerve and run off "coroners," his collective description for the boring men who come courting his mother, and the marsh...
...reasons that are still under study, cholesterol levels are influenced by a number of life-style factors. For instance, regular exercise can significantly raise the level of protective HDL. Alas, a couple of push-ups a day will not do the trick, says Dr. Josef Patsch of Houston's Baylor College of Medicine: "You need sustained aerobic exercise for 20 minutes at least four times a week to really benefit." A less strenuous way to raise HDL levels may be to have a daily shot or two of alcohol. "The evidence is indirect," reports Epidemiologist Stephen Hulley...