Word: trick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pebble on a pond. In the closing sequence there is a cheerful, almost slapstick substitution of U.S. guile for U.S. courage which would have been inconceivable as propaganda in World War I. The crew of the Sybil Gray captures a U-boat supply ship and learns a Nazi trick of mining torpedoes with delayed-action detonators. Disguised as Nazis, the Sybil Gray crew replenishes three Nazi submarines with these mined torpedoes. A few seconds after each U-boat submerges, it is blown to smithereens. As the victims spume skyward the U.S. crew cheers as merrily as if Dick Rover...
...hate to disappoint people who expect something sensational . . . but trick plays of the shoestring variety don't constitute a successful football system. You've got to go back to the bedrock of blocking, tackling, and position play, and rehearse your kids until they are letter perfect in their assignments...
...Swingler, the back who returned a Harvard kick-off Brown's only touchdown last year, has been out with the same type of aukle injury that started Savage on the bench last week. If he recuperated enough, he may try to pull the same trick on the Crimson which Savage pulled on the Crusaders last week. Bruce Remick, another fast runner, fills out the lineup of the regular Brown backfield. Jay Pattee, a blocking back of note, is a demon at kicking points after touchdown...
...midwinter the fields were in an advanced state, machine shops were working full time under Chief Engineer James Weesner. But parts still did not arrive when needed. Every trick was used to keep as many planes in the air as possible. In one hour the landing gear would be stripped from an incoming plane and attached to a plane ready for departure...
...Lloyd mastered the trick. The Robe (Christ's cloak) is a story of the past in modern dress. It describes the conversion to Christianity and martyr's death of Tribune Marcellus Gallic (the Roman who carried out Pilate's order to crucify Jesus) and the life of Marcellus' faithful Greek slave and bodyguard Demetrius. The setting is chiefly Rome, Palestine, Capri...