Word: decoyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...State Department feels that this active acquiescence in the arming of Israel will fool the Arabs, while calming Israeli fears. It is unlikely, however, that the guise will be any more effective than Russia's use of Czech arms. Worse, this attempt to use the French as a decoy represents not only diplomatic ineptitude, but moral cowardice. If we are unwilling to commit ourselves fully to Israeli interests, it is indeed base to attempt to force the French into it. France with her Algerian problem, is as interested in maintaining Moslem goodwill as the United States, and hence is most...
...while the Bishop of Citium intoned, "Cyprus crowns its heroic child, who sacrificed his life, with laurel leaves of admiration and myrtle leaves of grief." By British order, the funeral procession was limited to 50 mourners. Cypriots got around that restriction by having a band of "mourners" follow a decoy hearse down Nicosia's main street, thus diverting British police, who sprayed them with tear gas, while hundreds of Cypriots trooped down a back street to the cemetery with the real body...
Last week Silver charged that at least 15 sellers of vacuum cleaners, food freezers, storm windows, "have gypped . . . our public out of millions." For example, the decoy couples called a station about a sewing machine advertised at $26.50. They were visited by a sharper who confided that the machine was not very good; its needle was apt to snap under heavy strain and could not be replaced. Then he offered a $50 discount on a $189.50 model...
Dangerous Decoy. Near Utah's Bear River Wildlife Refuge, where the bleak shadows of the Wasatch Mountains stretch toward Great Salt Lake, hunters could hardly shoot fast enough. Fat from a summer in the grainfields of western Canada, great flights of geese and fresh-water ducks made tempting targets (see color pages following). Bright, bobbing decoys lured the flyers down toward danger; artificial calls quacked to them as they passed; shotguns (usually 12 gauge) blasted broad patterns of destruction across the shallow reaches of the river. The miracle was that so many birds survived...
...attack branding the United States as a war-monger, Andrei Vishinsky startled his United Nations audience last week by offering a new Soviet proposal for controling the atomic bomb. In light of Russia's unrelenting barrage of anti-American sentiment, the present plan is probably no more that a decoy to divert interest from President Eisenhower's suggestion of an atomic peace pool. Or it could be a last minute attempt to prevent the United States from winning full support for European defense unity. But because of the sudden reversal in the Soviet position, there must be a careful examination...