Word: trickyness
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It was obvious from the first minutes that the Crimson was going to have trouble skating. A combination of sticky ice tricky boards, and some hard checks by Brown managed to mess up almost every attack the Crimson got rolling.
The first three Aerobee rockets sent up with this apparatus were failures (which surprised no one in the tricky rocket business). The fourth trial succeeded. The sun-seeker found the sun and held the camera steady on it for long enough to get a 28-second exposure. The film, recovered...
Minutes later, the four-man Swiss sled, a red-nosed quarter-ton of steel, wire and canvas, started its practice run. Brakeman Fritz Stöckli gave a final shove, then hopped on behind his white-sweatered crew: Driver Endrich, Crewmen Aby Gartmann and René Heiland. Runners rattling on...
Holding notions advanced and tricky.
For an hour and a half Antoine Pinay waded through the dry, tricky intricacies of the budget problem. France, said he, had a right "to seek some relief [from] our allies" in Indo-China. There were "grave difficulties" to be faced in foreign trade. October had set new production records...