Word: decoyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reason to be nervous. For some two years the FBI had been working on this case; in three more days it would be ready to round up 33 individuals for its biggest spy trial so far. The tenant of that next office was glum-looking William Sebold, an FBI decoy (TIME, Sept. 22). Its walls were painted a bright white-to make the movies clearer. The camera focused on a calendar (June 25), on a clock on the desk (6:16) and on a tall, sardonic-looking, dark-haired man-Frederick Joubert Duquesne. Agent Johnson began to turn the crank...
...When Napoleon planned the invasion of Britain, he dreamed of just such a stripping as this, and sent his fleet as a decoy to the West Indies to try to accomplish it; but then only Nelson and the Mediterranean squadron entered the chase. With the Bismarck gone, the Germans still have her sister, the Tirpitz. If the German Navy, knowing what certain death it would be, nevertheless sent the Tirpitz out on a similar sweep, it might be a tipoff for invasion...
...Orion (7,215 tons, 6-in. armament) had broached into the expected path of the enemy fleet, reported by air reconnaissance to have divided into a northern squadron-two battleships covered by cruisers and destroyers -and a southern squadron-one battleship similarly covered. The Orion was to try to decoy the southern squadron into a night trap. Toward evening the main British force followed the flagship Warspite into the Ionian Sea between Sicily and Greece toward the hoped-for area of conflict. A few light Greek vessels put out to join them...
This time it was the 100,000 domestic ducks of the Long Island Duck Farmers' Association, fattening on nearby farms. Awakened by the searchlights feeling the sky for decoy planes, the ducks charged around in their wire pens like Brooklynites in the subway. They developed insomnia, turned up their bills at corn. Colonel Clair W. Baird, commanding Camp Upton, sighed, ordered his artillerymen to turn their lights the other...
Lots of Britons and most Americans thought the chances of invasion of Britain ended last month, and that Hitler's concentration of barges was just a decoy; but not the R. A. F., which ought to know. Last week, to please and appease Londoners who had lost much, British planes bombed Berlin for four and five hours a night. But the main heat of R. A. F. attack still licked at German-held ports, all the way from Stettin on the Baltic to Lorient, the port below the cape of Brittany where France built much of her Navy...