Word: trickyness
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> Dynamiting is quickest, most tricky. A properly placed charge will warp, rip and twist the steel casing, letting in water and sand. Improperly placed, the charge will waste its strength by blowing up and down the well shaft.
In one of the feature matches in the Longwood Cricket Club Tennis Tournament in Brookline yesterday afternoon, Al Everts, Varsity number one man and one of the outstanding local entrants in the tournament, succumbed to the two-handed forehand and tricky dropsliots of Francisco Segura, Ecuador champion and top rated...
The Lure. For several days before the enemy turned on Hengyang, Major Tex Hill, formerly of the A.V.G., and Major John Allison of Gainesville, Fla., had launched pin-pricking attacks on Japanese outposts and circled their fields, daring them to come out and fight. Finally they did. These tactics and...
Even Bartok finds transcribing such music difficult and laborious. He runs the turntable at a slow speed, so that a woman's voice sounds like a man's, a man's like a growl. In this way he can hear details more clearly. Says he: "It is...
The New South was, in sum, violence, cruelty, humiliation, poverty, despair, sorrow, murder, a confusion between self-interest and selfless patriotism, of which Author Richards can write like a blow between the eyes, and which sometimes he overdoes. If corpses dropped less often than ripe plums, in less tricky postures...