Word: tricked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...October crisis, while the lowest vote went to Central Committee Secretary Jerzy Albrecht, a Stalinist. On these terms, Party Secretary Gomulka has a mandate to make a clean sweep of Stalin ism and Stalinists. They had battled him during the campaign with clandestine leaflets, smears, whispers, and every other trick in the agitator's manual. They had pictured a pygmy Gomulka beside a huge Cardinal Wyszynski. Now it was time for a reckoning. But instead of rushing to make the changes demanded by his enthusiastic supporters. Gomulka counseled caution. There was still danger of provoking the Russians. Radio Moscow warned...
President Eisenhower took his inaugural oath last week twice within half an hour-or so it looked to millions of viewers on CBS and NBC. The trick was done not by mirrors but their electronic equivalent: the new Videotape Recorder, a 900-lb. machine that captures images as well as sound on magnetic tape and can play them back instantly-or when ever the user wants them-with fidelity approaching the original picture. It was the first time that TV had used Videotape in covering the news, but its experimental use in the few weeks since the networks...
...Playing the North-South positions, the U.S. team bid to the correct contract, six diamonds, but in a manner that left South to play the hand. Italy's Piero Forquet, West, opened with the three of hearts, and his partner, Guglielmo Siniscalco, took the trick with the ace, returned a heart lead, the only play that could stop the small slam. West trumped, and the U.S. was down one. When Italy took over the bids went: East South West North Pass 1β 4Ω 4Δ Pass 5Δ Pass 6Δ Thus the Italians arranged to play...
...play unless every one of them meant something definite to me. . . .Nevertheless, I still consider myself a Shakespeare man" (a highly acclaimed Hamlet, he will be the Othello at next summer's American Shakespeare Festival at Stratford, Connecticut). Mantan Moreland (Gogo), to get a laugh, pulled the Bert Lahr trick of quipping, "I speak my lines, but I don't know what I'm saying." But just as Lahr in private has clear ideas about the play's meaning, I am sure Mr. Moreland does...
...what it failed to do, the fields which it did not consider. To solve this problem, we recommend a little emphasis on originality and less on "campus politicking." Or, if you will, if the clam juice runs a little short, a little nip of brandy neat might do the trick...