Word: decoying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...posted walkie-talkie equipped guards at each exit, but Institute officials believed they had a way to exploit SDS's vigilance. By using a decoy, they could divert the crowd's attention to a side gate, then whisk McNamara away before anyone knew what was going on. Voila. Worth a try, at any rate...
...didn't work. A few SDS people, suspecting such a ploy, had stayed behind when the decoy car attempted to pull out. When McNamara was hustled toward the Mill St. gate and a waiting Harvard police station wagon, the students refused to budge. The crowd gathered around, a shouting match ensued, and police hustled McNamara over to Leverett House. He eventually left the scene via the underground tunnel system, surfacing at Kirkland House. The incident left both the Institute and the University shell-shocked. "I'm amazed that students at Harvard College would use tactics like that," commented John...
Freshman Cat Ferrante again proved herself a capable playmaker while directing the offense with perfect passes out to the wings. On an impressive decoy play. Ferrante charged down the center of the field, drew the defense after her and then sent St. Louis an arrow-straight pass. St. Louis completed the play by going one-on-one with the Dartmouth point and scoring on a ground shot...
John has been chosen for the role of decoy because of his physical resemblance to the victims and his rigorous preparation for the job. The life of an astronaut, he claims, is one not of glamor, but of "boring and montonous routine," thus qualifying him for a mission in which his task is to reproduce Adams's exact schedule of daily activities, going so far as to wear the dead man's clothing, drive his car and occupy the same hotel room. John is under 24-hour surveillance by a team of six scientists who observe him through binolculars...
...plays Miriam, the chief accomplice and paramour of the suave con man, Edward Pierce (Sean Connery), who masterminded England's first celebrated train heist in 1855. Miriam served as an all-purpose decoy: to help steal ?12,000 worth of gold ingots, she had to pose successively as a French courtesan, a cockney seamstress and an old beggar. Down turns each impersonation into a polished comic nugget; she swings effortlessly in and out of her various roles. Her scenes as Miriam are just as funny: in the film's best bit, Down turns the act of shaving Connery...