Word: trickyness
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Conservative Radical. Tied to Richard Nixon in the 1950 battle was an epithet that he has not quite managed to shake loose: "Tricky Dick." The Nixon that his friends know is not the stab-fingered persecutor with the five o'clock shadow that the cartoonists draw. To counter this...
The orchestra sounded fine in this place. The strings had considerable richness of tone and the wind section demonstrated considerable agility in tackling Debussy's tricky rhythmic figurations. The only section that suffered a bit from the non-mystical reading was the first Nuages. Here, clouds must somehow be evoked...
Harry had a glancing blow for Dwight Eisenhower ("No Eisenhower veto ever built a dam, or helped a farmer"), but his choicest epithets were reserved for Vice President Nixon: "Tricky Dicky Nixon is cut from the same cloth-don't make any mistake about that. Nixon is against the...
Dangerous Location. But in the Circle of Willis (named for English Anatomist Thomas Willis, who described it in 1664), surgery is tricky. Into the circle, like highways converging into a cloverleaf, the four ascending arteries pour the brain's blood supply, and from the circle branch off the principal...
Life in this country is only described in passing ("the tricky proliferation of America: an unfolding maze of Saturday movies, roller skating rinks, picnic grounds, church ladies, colored people...") but the beginning of the story has already indicated what effect it has had upon her parents: "They use paper napkins...