Word: decoyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...granted. One interception resulted in a triple lateral: Al Pfeifer brought the shirtsleeved crowd to its feet with a wild, diving catch of a 31-yd. scoring pass. There was enough hocus-pocus in each backfield to catch U.S. camera crews continually off guard. Often they focused on a decoy runner as he bucked and twisted downfield. Final score: Argonauts 13, Rough Riders...
...came to the U.S. in 1939, married New York-born Painter Sage, became an American citizen. Their solidly luxurious country house in Woodbury, Conn, is completely unlike the artistic "house"' of Breton's poem. There are a stone terrace built by Tanguy (a do-ityourself fan), a pond with decoy ducks, and a rowboat for "harvesting the bull-rushes." Artist Tanguy works in a made-over barn. As he describes it, he simply stands before his easel and begins to paint?without plan, without thought of what he is doing. Says he: "I am still the prisoner of my skin...
Cogny next joined the underground: he led raids against Italian outposts and spied for the Free French. But Cogny was trapped by a Gestapo decoy less than a year later, and he was out of the war for good. The Gestapo beat him "rudely," as he put it, on seven different occasions ("I succeeded in not talking"); they condemned him to death and finally shipped him off to Buchenwald. While many of his brother-officers were making their names in North Africa, Italy and the Vosges, Cogny was slaving in German road gangs, his head shaven, his weight down from...
...sudden," said Lamar, "I noticed that the ice had sawed the boat in two. The water was aflyin' . . . but we made it back to the blind. We stayed there three or four hours. Finally some old duck came in by mistake. Smith grabbed a gun . . . and hit a decoy...
Newsmen charged that to throw them off the trail prison officials sent a closed van through the prison gate as a decoy. Then, under cover of darkness, they slipped May out. Not until a convict inside the prison blew his breath on the ice-cold windowpane and wrote with his finger GONE, did the reporters waiting outside know that May had been released and they had missed him. Said a terse prison announcement later that morning: "[We] can inform you gentlemen that May has been discharged. That...