Word: counterploy
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Through the bitter German winter of 1948, West Berliners were kept alive by the Berlin airlift, a dramatic cold war counterploy to surmount a Soviet-inspired blockade of the city. Two million tons of food, fuel and clothing were flown into Tempelhof and other airports by U.S. and British cargo planes on 277,569 flights over a 15-month period. This year, with two-thirds of the U.S. under the siege of winter, Berliners responded with aid of their own. In a month-long Help America fund drive that ends this week, they raised $500,000 to help the American...
...boxes of matzoth, the traditional unleavened wafers used to celebrate the Jewish holiday. There were more matzoth the next day, and more the next-literally tons of them. Soviet diplomats, by now well-accustomed to confrontations with Jewish organizations over the treatment of Soviet Jews, quickly devised a counterploy: they refused to accept delivery and dumped the matzoth into the laps of the U.S. Postal Service...
Simultaneously, high White House and Pentagon officials periodically met for Strangelovian "Sigma Games" in the Pentagon. There, McGeorge Bundy, General Earle Wheeler and General Curtis LeMay, among others, devised ploy and counterploy for a bombing scenario with equally negative results. After 21 years of air strikes in the North, a follow-up survey by Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Nitze proved the predictions correct; but it was another year before the bombing was stopped. RUSSIAN SNUB. American diplomats tried unsuccessfully in 1965 to secure Soviet assistance in carrying word of a planned bombing halt to North Viet Nam. The message...
...Perfect Christian Response is a counterploy to rebel youths who suspect that the game may not be worth the candle. "If you're a Christian," asks the Rebel Youth, "how come you live in a $60,000 house, have two cars, a color television set, and a cleaning woman? Didn't Christ preach against materialism?" The solemn Perfect Christian Response: "Suppose everyone did sell his belongings. Do you honestly think that people of means would be attracted to such a shoddy, lower-class type of Christianity...
...rooms (plus eight water loos) into a plush Napoleonic empire. Now she has struck a Wellington of her own. Lerner, she says, spends little precious time at home, and when the millionaire lyricist cut off all her charge accounts around town, his lady finally said no fair. As a counterploy she locked him out on the street where he lives, then sued for separate maintenance. But she still loves him; so of course, said a source, no divorce...