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Word: tricking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Over the next 10 minutes, Hurley recorded a pure hat trick, three consecutive goals...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: Icewomen Rout Hapless Huskies, 13-2 | 2/3/1984 | See Source »

...character matter, because they suggest how a President would respond in a crisis, or whether he would dare to do the unpopular. Nowadays conversations about candidates turn less on specific issues than on judgments of them as tough-minded, unfair, soft, impetuous, cautious, shrewd, stubborn, dangerous. When with trick or trap questions television interviewers try to test how a challenger would react under pressure, the questioners often end up appearing overbearing and rude. Far from being a diversion from a sensible discussion of the issues, however, judgments about character and temperament are essential in choosing a President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newswatch Thomas Griffith: Daring to Be Cautious | 1/23/1984 | See Source »

...Yale Athletic Department had shown last November the same "Compton sense" the Canadian Football League (CFL) did recently, Margaret Cimino '87's tragic accident would have avoided. Prior to an important CFI, playoff game, the goalposts were coated heavily with Vaseline. This ridiculously simple trick accomplished what any number of security guards couldn't--perverting an divert bolsters crowd from injuring theorized by a falling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Goalpost Security | 1/16/1984 | See Source »

After that, no amount of Harvard pressure could do the trick. Tim Smith hit the post twice, once catching the inside of the far pipe. Twice Gordon robbed center Tim McMahon, who was playing his first varsity game since last year's Beanpot consolation contest...

Author: By Jim Silver, | Title: Crimson Takes Its Best Shot: B.C., 3-1 | 1/4/1984 | See Source »

...Plymouth Fury but the mind of a Victorian murderess. At birth, on the Chrysler assembly line, she mysteriously killed a mechanic who dared to drop cigar ash on her upholstery. (Alfred Hitchcock once tried, unsuccessfully, to work a scene like this into a movie; now the trick has been solved.) Two decades later, Arnie Cunningham (Keith Gordon), nerd of high school nerds, owns Christine-and is possessed by her. In a trice this four-eyed Faust is transformed into a cool dude with clear skin, wrap-around shades, slick black hair and the sexy swagger of a Vegas lounge star...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Season's Bleedings in Tinseltown | 12/19/1983 | See Source »

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