Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Free agency and trades supplement it, but there's no substitute for strong player development," he said. "That's the key to the health and longevity of any organization. It doesn't happen by accident. The trick is not to count on one or two guys. They had a number of good, young pitchers. If you have 20, two might come through. If you have two, your chances are reduced...
...vocal about it as Iowa Senator Tom Harkin, who has come to play with his spikes sharpened. But most candidates have bought the notion that the threat of red ink outweighs the threat from Red Square and that a strategy long on domestic prescriptions can turn the trick. Only Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton demurs. "The American people think the country is going in the wrong direction," he says, "but they are not sure that the President can or should do anything about...
...trick, then, is not to get sick. "Get plenty of rest," reads a brochure published by Kathleen M. Kniepmann of the Office of Health Education at UHS. Students are also advised to wash their hands frequently, air out their living quarters occasionally, and avoid sharing utensils...
...trick is to choose candidates with little or no "paper trail" to reveal their opinions, then be sure that the testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee maintains that mystery. Put simply, pick mediocre nominees and make them keep their mouths shut...
Anne Sexton was a popular, Pulitzer-prizewinning poet who was capable occasionally of a dark brilliance. She had a favorite palindrome: RATS LIVE ON NO EVIL STAR. The trick has first of all its bright little surprise of words, and then, on second look, a deeper, perverse magic -- a double negative of meaning that ends in a metaphysical buzz. RATS LIVE ON EVIL STARS would work in a sane world, or else RATS LIVE ON NO GOOD STAR...