Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...here to provide you with the care you need," he told the audience of mostly students. "The trick is that there is a such a terrific variety of [types of] care you need...
...that Harvard (4-2 overall, 1-2 Ivy) wasted any time. After Loyola (6-3) co-captain Jeanne Harrington completed her hat trick 13:58 into the game, the Crimson went to work. Co-captain Megan Colligan, sophomore attacker Lindsay Davison and senior midfielder Sarah Winters each tallied goals; Winters' came with only eight seconds left in the half...
...together people pray that they're not called upon to remember names. I've tried every trick in the book, but my name recognition ability is dreadful. My roommate and I have worked out a system--if I don't immediately introduce her to someone who greets me, she takes that I've forgotten their name and introduces herself. Fortunately, my boyfriend has the same name as my roommate's long-time significant other, so I remember his name fairly well. (It helps that "Chris" is relatively easy to spell and pronounce.) Cosmo and Vogue may not realize...
...impulse to demagoguery and agree on some reasonable reforms poses nothing less than a severe test of democratic government. Most of them already know the urgent question: How can the country honor the promise it has made to the current crop of older Americans without fleecing younger ones? The trick is to get them to ask it out loud...
Second, I did not attempt to "trick" a board inspector into believing I lived in a house in Harvard Square. I would have had no motive whatsoever in doing so, and given the very public fact that I had resided for some years in Harvard Yard, I would have been foolish to suggest otherwise to any city official. The Crimson's statement that "the board found Light guilty of deceiving an inspector" is careless misrepresentation. It implies both that I have faced some form of tribunal and that a legal determination has been made. Neither is true...