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Word: tricking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Freshman center Ryan Smart has been one of the bright spots for McCutcheon's relatively young squad. Smart recorded a hat trick at Dartmouth and has racked up 13 points (9 goals, 4 assists) over his last four games...

Author: By David S. Griffel, | Title: Icemen To Battle Big Red | 2/10/1995 | See Source »

AVOID, ORIGINALLY LA DISPARITION (1969), is a lipogram, an old trick dating as far back as 500 B.C. in which authors voluntarily submit to awful handicaps, arbitrarily abjuring crucial signs or symbols and making writing, always a hard task, a virtual impossibility. In A Void, this onus is particularly harsh. All consonants, from stalwart b to languishing z, can occur in normal fashion; but only a, i, o and u may fill out what is ordinarily a quorum of 26. "Huh?" you may gasp, "no ...?" Shhhh! Do not think or, God forbid, say it, at any cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A WORLD OF HUMOR AND LOSS | 2/6/1995 | See Source »

...long run, the stress lines in Gingrich's own party may be a bigger problem for Gingrich than whatever opposition is presented by Bill Clinton, who is attempting the neat trick of saying ``Me too'' and ``I'm not Newt'' in the same breath. In his 81-minute State of the Union address, the President endorsed many Republican ideas but portrayed himself as the defender of common sense and the humane American spirit, tacking just to the left of Gingrich and positioning himself as perhaps the most moderate candidate in 1996. But Democrats took some comfort from signs of dissension...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAMING THE TROOPS | 2/6/1995 | See Source »

Early made sure February 3, 1995 would not be so enjoyable for his family. He scored his team's first two goals and then salted away the win with the hat trick 5:16 into the third period, a goal that put his team up by a 4-1 count...

Author: By David S. Griffel, | Title: Tiger, Tiger Burning Bright | 2/4/1995 | See Source »

...making teenagers from Brooklyn and the Bronx who called themselves the Masters of Destruction. Although Phiber claims he never joined MOD, he was happy to share his knowledge with them. Under his tutelage, they learned how to seize control of a telephone account and alter services at will. One trick: turning a rival's home telephone into a pay phone, so that whenever his parents tried to dial a number an operator would interrupt to say, "Please deposit 25 cents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hacker Homecoming | 1/23/1995 | See Source »

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