Word: trickyness
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The problem of succession is a tricky business in the patriarchal Moslem world. The Shiite Moslems broke with the Sunnis .over naming the successor to Mohammed; the Babists broke with the Shiites over the successor to the successor; and, in more recent times (1863), the Bahais splintered from the Babists...
The insects easiest to study in this way are mosquitoes, bees, flies, etc. Dr. Hocking puts one of them on the mill and makes it fly until it is exhausted, which means that its nectar tank is empty. Then he refuels it (a tricky business) with a measured amount of...
Arnold Laven), carefully acted. Dan Duryea, as the mouthpiece for the indicted hoods, is as tricky as watered silk, and Actor Egan shows himself, as usual, a competent actor of a popular Hollywood type: the Neanderthal man in the Brooks Brothers shirt.
That night Kennedy arose before a sellout audience, boyishly tugged at his ear, tweaked his nose, ran a finger around the inside of his shirt collar, and announced bleakly: "I am particularly happy to be here tonight." The crowd sat silent, waiting. Kennedy continued: "It will be possible for us...
Misfires & Shrugs. One reason for such achievements: Adler knows music as few opera managers do: he used to be a conductor. A man of charm and inexhaustible energy, Adler spends weeks each winter combing Europe for talent, works 18 hours a day during the season. The logistics for his short...