Word: decoyed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this bear garden. Let us act as mediators between these two gorillas." In one emotion-bogged passage, leftist ex-M.P. Ian Mikardo shouted: "I am not prepared to see my loved ones go up in radioactive dust so that we should act as a lightning conductor-as decoy duck-to draw enemy fire on our heads to divert it from New York and Chicago." In some replies to Gaitskellites, "NATO" was spat out like a dirty word. Fiery Michael Foot demanded that imperial Britain, to avoid obliteration, should become a neutralist country "like India, Indonesia, Egypt, Yugoslavia, Ghana...
...next to the same man; he took laborious notes, I didn't. At the end of the year this fellow turned to me and asked me why I brought the notebook to class at all. I told him that I used my notebook as a kind of decoy. 'Excuse me,' replied this fellow, 'but isn't it pronounced decoy?" Anyway, I thought that was a very Harvard story...