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Word: trick (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conference table last September. With strong diplomatic encouragement from Whitehall and Washington, the frontline Presidents had sent a senior representative to London to tell the guerrilla leaders-particularly the recalcitrant Mugabe-that they must settle with the British. That arm twisting, and the additional assembly points, did the trick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ZIMBABWE RHODESIA: We Are Going Home | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

...would have been nice if Sorrenti had decided to sit out the rest of the game. Northeastern pushed the puck past the goalline for the fourth time at 11:20, and a scant minute and a half later, Sorrenti had completed her bid for a hat trick and added one for extra measure, making it 6-0, Northeastern...

Author: By Nancy F. Bauer, | Title: Northeastern Shuts Out Crimson, 8-0, Scoring Six Goals in Third Period | 12/12/1979 | See Source »

...this day, at least, the All-American unit prevailed, thanks to Cougar Pat Malloy's hat trick--the last third of which came with 3:41 remaining to kill a ferocious, swarming Clemson rally...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Columbia's Hot Soccer Team Freezes in NCAA Tournament | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

...supporting players are no less tacky. The pouty Michelle Phillips, as the ship's social director, wears so many silly getups that one might think ABC is trying to trick viewers into thinking that she is Cher. The blow-dried Chad Everett (Medical Center) is cast as a Pulitzer-prizewinning author who wears what appears to be a Pulitzer Prize medal on a gold chain around his neck. There are real French actors in the cast - Marie-France Pisier, Louis Jourdan - as well as ersatz French men like James Coco. Brooklynese is provided by Shelley Winters, who seems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: A Listing Ship of Sweeps | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

...Brown band probably began to play a dirge, the Crimson gave new mcaning to the saying "kick then when they're down" when Brynteson completed her at trick with 21 seconds left...

Author: By Nell Scovell, | Title: Brynteson Blazes; Booters Bop Brown | 11/10/1979 | See Source »

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