Word: trickyness
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THE grandmotherly proprietress leaned expertly over a pool table in The Corner, a barroom on the main corner of South Milwaukee's shabby business district, and sank a tricky shot. "This is a very conservative town," said Ethel Rapee. "People want things to stay the way they are. They...
Immediately after the school arguments, the court will listen to attorneys challenge the constitutionality of court procedures in capital-punishment cases. When raised last term, the questions were avoided by the Justices who were closely divided. Because Blackmun had written the lower-court decision, he could not vote. Now the...
For Picker, 42, a prosperous architect from Newport Beach, Calif., Intrepid's showing was fitting answer to those skeptics who felt that he was not up to handling a tricky 12-meter. Though he was co-helmsman of Columbia in the 1967 cup trials, most of his experience is...
The tricky part was getting the three mirrors exactly the right size and shape, and at just the right angles and distances from one another. The puzzle took Karl three years to solve, working ten-and 15-hour days, trying thousands of pieces of glass. "We had to get rid...
Presumably she should know better. A hapless and bloody rehash of Bonnie and Clyde, Bloody Mama features Shelley as the head of a small criminal band of psychopathic wastrels, four of whom are, incidentally, her sons. There are heavy-breathing suggestions that the family that preys together plays together. Mama...