Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...variously as Magic Mitts, Scatch, Katch-a-Roo and Super Grip Ball. On streets, playgrounds and at the beach, players have added their own fancy moves, twisting into pretzel shapes to make behind-the-back catches, or getting a grip on the ball while doing a high-kick. Another trick: strapping a mitt on each hand to grab two balls at once. In short, the new adhesive playthings do what the Frisbee used to do, with less effort. Dropping the Velcro ball is also a lot harder: if it strikes any part of the sticky mitt, the orb stays...
...answer to that question has been, until recently, the United States. "No other nation," Margaret Thatcher has said, "has so successfully combined people of different races and nations within a single culture." How have Americans succeeded in pulling off this almost unprecedented trick...
...Trick question: What country is the world's leading arms manufacturer -- in per capita terms? Hint: it's not any of the big five in the arms business (the U.S., the Soviet Union, France, Britain and China). The answer: Czechoslovakia...
...foreign organ past the body's immune system, which is dedicated to the proposition that all alien tissue is dangerous and should be destroyed? On the one hand, doctors try to disable the body's defenses just enough so that they will not reject the transplant. Here the trick is not to go overboard and completely cripple the immune system, leaving the body open to attack by deadly viruses and bacteria. On the other hand, they try to cajole the body's defenders into accepting the graft...
...says that while the week's accommodations at a number of Days Inns were more than adequate, as "it's very hard to find cheap motels when you don't plan a trip," they saved their money by dining exclusively at Taco Bells--whose Yankee "Mexican" food did the trick for the Southerners...