Morgan hesitated, thinking that if this was a trick, it was a good one.

Any lingering suspicion that this was a trick Al Budd had thought up was dispelled.

It was a trick they used to try and conceal their identity when they followed trucks to check their speed.

Bobby Lowe of Boston was the first to hit four at home and Gil Hodges turned the trick in Brooklyn's Ebbetts Field.

In 1877 a green silhouette was used to create a ghostlike image ; ten years later a trick chair was used to allow an actor to appear in the middle of the scene, and then again from the midst of the audience.

He was the first to make the claim that programming is so inherently complex that, in order to manage it successfully, programmers need to harness every trick and abstraction possible.

Even those choices where some randomness was part of the natural system ( such as when to throw a surprise pitch-out to try to trick a runner trying to steal a base ) were decided based on probabilities supplied by Weaver or La Russa.

By 1898 Georges Méliès was the largest producer of fiction films in France, and from this point onwards his output was almost entirely films featuring trick effects, which were very successful in all markets.

This trick was worked by stopping the camera and replacing the actor with a dummy, then restarting the camera before the axe falls.

The other basic set of techniques for trick cinematography involves double exposure of the film in the camera, which was first done by G. A.

He was especially loved by MIT students for his willingness to teach and his kindness: " The trick to education ," he said, " is to teach people in such a way that they don't realize they're learning until it's too late.

He was also known for his trick playing, which included playing with only his right ( fretting ) hand and using his teeth or playing behind his back and between his legs.

When Laban planned to deceive Jacob into marrying Leah instead of Rachel, the Midrash recounts that both Jacob and Rachel suspected that Laban would pull such a trick ; Laban was known as the " Aramean " ( deceiver ), and changed Jacob's wages ten times during his employ ( Genesis 31: 7 ).

The main plot of the strip was Hans and Fritz would pull a prank or trick on one of the adults which resulted in them being hunted down and given a spanking in the end panel.

When the PET range was revamped with updated hardware, it was quickly discovered that performing the old trick on the new hardware led to disastrous behavior by the new video chip, causing it to destroy the PET's integrated CRT monitor.

According to Quintus, Laocoön begged the Trojans to set fire to the horse to ensure it was not a trick.

It was not difficult for crooks to rig illegal " wine synagogues " to trick the government to receive their wine which would then be bootlegged.

He then attempted to join the army, but at his induction physical it was discovered that a football injury that he had sustained at Shattuck had left him with a trick knee.

In July 2009, the Neopets site was the target of an identity theft hacking scheme that attempted to trick users into clicking a link that would allow them to gain items or neopoints.

In the latter, this practice is called calaverita ( Spanish for " little skull "), and instead of " trick or treat ", the children ask ¿ me da mi calaverita?

Ronsard's own work came a little later, and a rather idle story is told of a trick of Du Bellay's which at last determined him to publish.

However, his little trick was uncovered when the gateway was taken down for removal.

They are either " junk " cards playable anytime that cannot win a trick, or they count as the two highest trumps ( the two Jokers must be differentiable ; the " big Joker " outranks the " little Joker ").

The 1980 Doctor Who episode " Shada " makes a sidelong reference to this region – the Fourth Doctor ( played by Tom Baker ) claims that walking through the Time Vortex " is a little trick I learned from a space-time mystic in the Quantocks ".

This placebo treatment did the trick and when they returned a cured Emerson took great pleasure in showing off his little sloshy trophy.

Some con artists will approach a tourist having trouble with the swiping of the card, and pretend to be helpful, but will use a sleight-of-hand trick to switch the tourist's MetroCard with one having little or no value.

Our stage setting is very appropriate, because, even though it's an easy trick to lay your scene in eternity, and, for instance, to have someone shoot off a revolver in the year one-thousand-and-such, here you must accept doors that open out on plains covered with snow falling from a clear sky, chimneys adorned with clocks splitting to serve as doors, and palm-trees growing at the foot of bedsteads for little elephants sitting on shelves to munch on.

In an environment with 100 % relative humidity, very little water evaporates and so most of the loss is alcohol, a useful trick if one has a wine with very high proof.

After a little effort, Karasawa is able to trick Chizuru into admitting she is a model, infuriating her.

To play a prank on the citizens of Springfield, Bart places a radio deep inside a well and uses the microphone to trick the town into thinking a little boy is stuck in it.

The change of goaltenders made little difference for Heatley, as he finished his hat trick with a tough wrist shot past Thibault to tie the game at 3 – 3.

Eventually, Ironbeak figures out their little trick after seeing Constance the badger going to put away Martin's armour.

Keeping their promise but intending to trick the humans, the mermaids sing for only a little while and to no effect before disappearing.

However, the retraction received little attention, and in the following years many claimed to remember having seen the trick as far back as the 1850s.

Sean doesn't know she already has a well-off boyfriend, but he decides to play a little trick to win her.

Too many husbands, Dr. Schillinger continues, worry about `` how well they're doing '', and fear that their success depends on some trick or technique of sexual play.

The act of purposefully using this force to lift the rear wheel and balance on the front without tipping over is a trick known as a stoppie, endo or front wheelie.

The object of a trick-taking game is based on the play of multiple rounds, or tricks, in each of which each player plays a single card from their hand, and based on the values of played cards one player wins or " takes " the trick.

Third, a variant of this conjugation trick, which is sometimes preferable because it requires no modification of the data values, involves swapping real and imaginary parts ( which can be done on a computer simply by modifying pointers ).

Davros uses a trick to wipe out those who oppose him, by ordering a vote to decide whether to continue with the project, when the Daleks arrive they kill those who voted against Davros, but ultimately turn on Davros and apparently kill him at the conclusion of the serial.

A wry trick of others is to request the reader to get off their resting place, inasmuch as the reader would have to be standing on the ground above the coffin to read the inscription.

" The word " trick " refers to a ( mostly idle ) " threat " to perform mischief on the homeowners or their property if no treat is given.

There is one small " trick " to this code that needs to be considered: comparisons return the right hand result, so it is important to put the find on the right hand side of the comparison.

Compared to its use in rugby, laterals and backward passes are generally rare in North American football, due to a much greater focus on ball control in American football strategy ; it is most commonly used as a last-minute desperation strategy or as part of a trick play.

The " trick " that allows lossless compression algorithms, used on the type of data they were designed for, to consistently compress such files to a shorter form is that the files the algorithms are designed to act on all have some form of easily modeled redundancy that the algorithm is designed to remove, and thus belong to the subset of files that that algorithm can make shorter, whereas other files would not get compressed or even get bigger.

Anti-spam software eventually caught up on this trick, penalizing messages with very different text in a multipart / alternative message.

May bugs on a tree ( fifth trick )

In these shows, the illusionists used the magic lantern to trick people into thinking that they had summoned up spirits of revolutionary figures with the lantern mounted on a trolley.

Variants of this also put a 5-point value on bidding ZERO-negative 5 if you take a trick, positive 5 if you don't take any tricks.

** Salting ( confidence trick ), process of adding valuable substances to a core sample, or otherwise scattering valuable resources on a piece of property to be " discovered " by a prospective buyer

Supposedly, due to another mechanical trick, when the king reached the first step, the ox stretched forth its leg, on which Solomon leaned, a similar action taking place in the case of the animals on each of the six steps.

Meanwhile, the Titans started out their postseason by narrowly defeating the Buffalo Bills, 22 – 16, on a famous, trick kickoff return play that became known in NFL Lore as the Music City Miracle.

Sabata and If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death, directed by Gianfranco Parolini introduces into similar betrayal environments a kind of hero molded on the Mortimer character from For a Few Dollars More, only without any vengeance motive and with more outrageous trick weapons.