Word: trick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...That would be banal. What we want is a new way if getting at your stores of learned gold. For you see, we have to say a pleasant valedictory, and we're afraid we can't win through without your help. You're just the one to turn the trick, Inch, old boy. You're an industrious fellow, you always used to be in Group I and turned out high marks in mass production. There are so many things we can say with your help...
Murray has long expounded labor-management cooperation, believing that labor can show management many a trick to slick up its lagging machine. He fathered the Reuther plan for speeding up aircraft manufacture. He himself has made a survey of steel and vows he can show steelmen how to increase their production by 30% without expanding their present facilities. Whatever the practicality of the Reuther plan and the Murray plan, both support Murray's claim that labor, having won a seat at the council table with industry, is not content to behave like a captious outsider, but is willing...
...time it looked as though the few British planes in air might be able to turn the trick. Four Stukas crumpled under their fire. The Ju. 87Bs-dreadful when unopposed, but so slow and defenseless in air battle that they had proved useless over Britain-broke for home...
...means so wild, vocally and harmonically, as Mitchell's Christian Singers (an earlier Hammond find), the Golden Gate foursome have one trick all their own. In story-songs-which their best ones are-the narrator is Willie Johnson, who always wanted to be a preacher. When the time comes for Baritone Johnson to narrate, the quartet rhythmically deploys, slapping and tapping the while, closes ranks after he steps up to the microphone. Besides their manual and pedal percussion effects, the Golden Gate Quartet beat out the rhythm by precisely controlling the intake and outgo of their breaths. Their most...
...from sending ships there, to show that the act of sending them, to which he asks us to commit ourselves now, will have less serious consequences than not sending them. This is the only fair and frank way of discussing the issue. Instead, Mr. Stimson resorts to a cheap trick of distortion. He calls the proposed ban a "shackle." By this philosophy, the Constitution is a suffocating strait-jacket instead of a charter of freedom...