Word: tricks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Churches' Role. In waging the cold war, Dulles warned, the Russians are doing their best to trick the U.S. into rushing to the defense of unjustifiable attitudes. "Soviet leadership is astute in aiming its assaults against positions in the non-Communist world that are indefensible, morally or practically . . . We need not laud or sanctify whatever or whomever Communism attacks, and our material support should principally serve to sustain, fortify and enlarge human freedom and healthy economic and social conditions...
...court listened to him for two days, called him a liar and observed: ". . . the well-known trick ... of substituting for guilty participants dead men whose lips are sealed." There would be no new trial for any of the boys...
Along with the normal heritage of broken noses, trick elbows and collapsible knees, old football players often take with them into later life the habit of explaining contemporary events in terms of gridiron metaphor. Last week Canada's Secretary for External Affairs, Lester Bowles Pearson, onetime University of Toronto football coach, said at an Ottawa banquet...
...Post, with one-third of its 225,000 circulation in rural areas, thought that Partridge's trick, even for city-bred readers, was worth an eight-column. Page One headline: OKLAHOMA'S PRISONER-COW FREED FROM SILO. But Managing Editor Alexis McKinney had some misgivings: "I see trouble ahead. Every farmer will be yelling, 'Send us Partridge...
...Sound; given a few more idea men an the studio might have brought forth a Time Machine. A story about a timeless girl doesn't bring forth, ipso facto, a timeless picture and another device is needed to make it a classic. A Time Machine would have done the trick...