Word: trickyness
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In bright moonlight their boat slipped through the minefields, past the Cavite shoreline, where Jap artillery blazed intermittently at Forts Drum and Hughes. Beyond the bay they laid a tricky course to freedom. "A tight feeling in our stomachs," they sat on deck with legs and arms crossed as well...
The other smash hit is on the other side of the fence completely. A meandering, rhapsodic flowering of the old-fashioned W. C. Handy type of blues, Blues in the Night promises to take its place beside St. Louis Blues as a classic. Unlike the Handy songs, it did not...
The Nazi motor was a designer's dream: the designers had used complicated parts, scarce materials. But by Detroit's notions of mass production it was a little too tricky to be really good: it was a hard motor to put on an assembly line. In making war...
Everything was right. The moon was bright, but ghostly and tricky with mist. Swarms of British attack planes thundered down on the night's target, peppered & salted it with bomb, cannon, machine gun. In the milky darkness half a mile away, big Whitley bombers dropped clusters of parachute troops...
At its peak (in World War I), City News served 22 papers, employed 150 reporters. Newspaper mergers and resignations whittled membership to eight. When two of these (the Herald Tribune and Post) resigned last month, their share of assessments (about $72,800 a year) was loaded on the remaining six...