Word: trickiest
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Plutonium is made in a chain-reacting pile, the trickiest, most hair-raising item of industrial equipment. Every interior detail of a pile must be right from the start; after the pile has been in operation, its innards are too radioactive to be tinkered with. The controls must be perfect, too, or the pile will destroy itself with a bang...
Hope for the Backward. Genetics probably offers the Soviet authorities one of their trickiest methods of posing as a source of scientific light and hope. Western genetics, following Mendel and Morgan, teaches that the inherited characteristics of living organisms are largely controlled by genes passed down from parents to offspring. During sexual reproduction the genes are shuffled, but except in the case of accidental mutations they are not changed. Lysenko teaches that the form of an organism is determined by the environment in which it develops. He claims to have modified plant species merely by moving them around Russia. (Western...
Nevertheless, things are tough. The Bruins have already proved that they possess an exasperatingly good goalie in Don Whiston--he made 48 saves in last week's game--as well as one of the trickiest first lines this side of Dartmouth. Tony Malo and Johnny Casey have picked up considerably more than the fundamentals of the game back home in Canada, while their linemate Bobby Davidson is no slouch...
...stole Vic's girl (Diana Lynn) and got his start in her father's business. He jilted her when he met rich, well-connected Martha Vickers, and began to make his way as a financier. Thus established, he cut Martha adrift and set out to break the trickiest operator on the Street (Sydney Greenstreet), using, as his ally, Sydney's bored wife (Lucille Bremer). Then he brushed Lucille aside like all the others...
Scissors & Paste. Olivier was determined to make the play clear in every line and every word-even to those who know nothing of Shakespeare. For the most part, he manages to elucidate even the trickiest turns of idiom by pantomime or a pure gift for thought transference. But wherever it has seemed necessary, old words have been changed for new. Recks not his own rede becomes Minds not his own creed. In all, there are 25 such changes. Some are debatable, but the principle is sound. It is equally sound, of course, to cut the text. There are purists...