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.

The trick was the little vamp on " Soon " which has five-and six-note chords.

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.

For a blood-chilling ring of terror to the very sound of his name was the tool he needed for the job he'd promised to do.

Haying time was close at hand, and they needed some strong branches to repair a hay rack.

A man like Jess would want to have a ready means of escape in case it was needed.

The car was just about to us, its driver's fat, solemn face intent on the road ahead, on business, on a family in Sante Fe -- on anything but an old pick-up truck in which two human beings desperately needed rescue.

Thus, Margenau remarks: `` A large number of unrelated epicycles was needed to explain the observations, but otherwise the ( Ptolemaic ) system served well and with quantitative precision.

For a freshman Congressman to read political Lessons to graybeard Democrats was poor policy for one who needed to make friends.

Just when it was needed for the campaign, Hearst Paper No. 8, the Boston American, began publication.

That was all they needed.

There was much sickness in the corps, and the men were, in addition, without the clothing, shoes, and blankets needed for the winter weather.

Fosdick insisted that a strong word was needed from Washington, and it was immediately forthcoming.

Brooks Adams was consistent in his admonishments to historians about the necessary tools or insights they needed to possess.

He was no flaming liberal, yet the New Deal, the Fair Deal and the New Frontier needed him.

At the height of the first snowstorm we had, it was impossible for me to get medical attention needed during an emergency.

Hanging over the bar was an oil painting of a nude Al had accepted from a student at the Corcoran Gallery who needed to eat and drink and was broke.

`` Finally, all I needed was to throw a little piece of red wood that looked like a firecracker and that dumb dog would run ki-yi-ing for his life ''.

It went right on creaking under his own considerable weight, and all it needed, Harold thought, was for somebody to fling himself back in a fit of laughter and that would be the end of it.

`` When that woman found me and told me that you needed me I was never so happy since before the war ''.

but they all hastened to add that certainly less time was needed on it than presently spent.

Four subjects ( 10% ) did not change even then but needed the additional information that an arm-elevation under these circumstances was a perfectly normal reflex reaction which some people showed while others did not.

This last was probably not in Brumidi's palette, but was needed to take the chill, bluish look off the new work next to the old, where softening effects of time were seen, even after thorough cleaning.

In parts a repeated sponging was needed, but everywhere we found that water alone was enough to restore the original brightness.