Word: tricked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Poisoning," his doctor at home briskly diagnoses. Despite some lingering fears that he was the victim of an electronic trick by a BBC man called Angel (who may or may not have worn a beard), or had become the subject of diabolic possession, Pinfold settles back happily to a quiet novelist's life...
This apology turned the trick, and Vag's friend told him, with an air of good-natured condescension, not to miss a certain article in the July 6 New Yorker. Vag promised to look it up immediately and with that purpose in mind made his way towards Lamont...
...league in home runs (29) and in runs batted in (78). Though temporarily out of the lineup with a gimpy left ankle, he has a solid chance of becoming the first National Leaguer to win clear title to these three championships since Philadelphia's Chuck Klein turned the trick in 1933 at the age of 27. But for the life of him, Aaron cannot explain how he does it. He just hits the baseball. "I'm up there with a bat, and all the pitcher's got is the ball," says he. "I figure that makes...
...turned the trick in 1947 over Los Angeles station KTLA, and Pantomime Quiz has been on and off TV ever since. There have been few changes in format. M.C. Stokey hands out actable "stumpers" (e.g., "Hand your teeth to me, grandma, I'm putting the bite on a friend") to competing four-man teams, each made up of two name actors and two pretty actresses. The player who gets the stumper acts it out with passion and abandon while his three teammates have only two minutes to supply the words. Stokey has speeded up the game with the invention...
...with Hitler, and even in the friendly U.S. at that time, one-third of George Gallup's opinion staters thought the British were licked. For some Nazis, it was a simple matter of crossing the Channel in the wake of the Dunkirk evacuees. The British, who knew the trick was one too many even for Napoleon, were slow to convince. Hitler thought the British would give up, and so it was not until July 16 that he issued Directive No. 16: "As England, in spite of the hopelessness of her military position, has so far shown herself unwilling...