Word: decoyed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inexplicable move which gradually convince the crew--and slowly convert the officers to a similar view--that he is really quite mad. Arnheiter spends $950 of the crew's recreation fund to buy a speedboat which, he says, will help to engage Vietcong gunboats by serving as a decoy. He has shark's teeth painted on the bow of the speedboat to give it fighting spirit. He institutes a code of moral behavior, cleanliness and shore-like routine that includes a required Protestant religious service each Sunday on the aft deck. In addition, he places himself above the crew...
...away for a four-hour talk with the North Vietnamese before he was spotted in Chez Garin (one of Michelin's two-star restaurants) with an attractive U.S. television producer, Margaret Osmer. It would perhaps be ungallant or even naive to say that Kissinger merely used her as a decoy, but it had that effect. The press collectively winked and concluded that Henry was up to nothing serious in Paris...
...Marine units now positioned on landing craft off the coast of the DMZ (acting either as a decoy deterrent force or as an attack group to invade North Vietnam) are the same units which were sent to Okinawa from Vietnam...
Later in the second quarter, the Colts pulled off a play more befitting volleyball than football. Sending Tight End John Mackey downfield as a decoy, Unitas took aim at Wide Receiver Eddie Hinton -and overthrew him. Hinton leaped and tipped the ball to Cowboy Cornerback Mel Renfro, who leaped and tipped the ball to the startled Mackey, who raced 45 yds. for a touchdown...
...before 3 a.m. Escorted from the Women's House of Detention in Manhattan, she was hustled into a prison van, one of a procession of at least ten vehicles. Soon after it was under way, the caravan suddenly split up in several directions to foil any pursuers, one decoy car heading toward each of the New York area's three major commercial airports...