Word: trick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japs used many a battle-scarred trick. Said a U.S. officer: '"The moment we take an objective we have to organize our perimeters quickly, for the Japs . . . strike back immediately in localized counterattacks." Public-address systems were brought up by the Japs to make noisy diversions while their troops crept round to attack from the rear. But, said the American officer, "our boys are awake to all these tricks. They have not been confused . . . and have held their fire like veterans...
Since Pearl Harbor, 344 Army camps have witnessed the cue work of billiards' No. 1 trick-shot Svengali. Peterson has peregrinated 75,000 miles, given 1,239 exhibitions, walked goo miles around tables making 92,000 fancy shots for his uniformed audiences...
After decades of experiment in many quarters, a simple, practical method of preventing ice formations on plane wings was announced this week by Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp. Heat from exhaust gases does the trick. Said Chairman Tom Girdler: "The Catalina long-range patrol bombers have been in production several months equipped with the radically new thermal anti-icer." He gave credit to the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics for the original idea and part of its development...
...McKinlock we were ten, not including a mysterious joker who floats in now and then to read PM and The New Republic), well, Art Hodes is one of the old Chicago gang that learned its jazz from the great New Orleans musicians who floted up the Mississippi (a good trick, as Professor Kirtley F. Mather could undoubtedly point out) after New Orleans went on a purity kick following the last...
MERVIN LYSING finally brought out his wife who just got in from Minnesota and it's no wonder that he hasn't put in much time in Thayer N-68 of late ... He even played his room-mates the dirty trick of taking his radio over to the Lil Woman...