Word: trickyness
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Epsom Downs is not a flat mile-and-a-half but a tricky course which first runs uphill, drops down around a sharp turn, rises again at the finish. Coming into the stretch, Goya II forged in front as Perifox and the Aga Khan's Le Grand Duc moved...
Ahlfors. Erratic teacher, but good tutor. Makes one work. Gives tricky exams.
In the third quarter the Stahleymen flashed the tricky passes and close defensive tactics which have made them so formidable all fall. George Harstone and Hal Cleveland shot two goals past Irving, the Eli goalie, while Witherspoon and Livingstone on the points were limiting the Blue to one goal.
Like all good reporters, Royce Brier went thoroughly over his story's ground. Boy in Blue was three years writing. took Author Brier step by step over the Tennessee battlefields he tells about. And, like Stephen Crane, who had never seen a battle when he wrote his war masterpiece...
*Two weeks after one Pete McCoy had disgracefully lost a San Francisco bout in 1899, tricky, cruel Boxer Kid McCoy gave Joe Choynski a terrific walloping. "This is the real McCoy!" exclaimed a sportswriter, thus coining an enduring U. S. phrase.