Word: trickyness
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Never a man to make things easy for himself, Director Hitchcock has tried in Stage Fright to work within the discipline of a tricky story conceit: his heroine (Jane Wyman) plays romantic nip & tuck simultaneously with a suspected murderer (Richard Todd) and the Scotland Yard man (Michael Wilding) who is...
When the Harlem Trotters' tricky, little (5 ft. 7 in.) Marques Haynes scuttled in to score the first basket, the gallery buzzed. No one had forgotten what happened the first time the Trotters played the Lakers last year. After rolling up a comfortable lead over the Lakers, the Globetrotters...
Under the watchful eyes of American Automobile Association judges, the drivers had to keep an average speed of 42 miles per hour over the tricky course, save gas by skillful driving (e.g.,-a gentle, steady accelerator pressure), use no trick gadgets. One driver, wearing neither shoes nor socks, had sandpapered...
The accountant was a company veteran (14 years) named Daniel Cardoso Pimenta. Along with a scion of one of Rio's best families, Chief Cashier Nelson de Almeida Cardoso, he was charged with having embezzled the funds through a tricky system of interoffice bookkeeping entries. Just after auditors spotted...
Painting space, Leonid thinks, is not half so tricky as it's cracked up to be: "It's a question of color and line. You make your objects very bright in the foreground and not at all bright on the horizon."