Word: decoying
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...because of the horror of dealing with people that architecture involves. I knew it from the beginning, but I went on with it. One learned elementary things. How to sharpen a pencil. The fact was that most of my colleagues went to architecture the way I went, as a decoy or an alibi...
...held, then handed a pistol with.a silencer. As José tells it, "The brother turned around and pulled the trigger three times against the man's head. Wow, was he surprised when it didn't work!" The gun was not loaded. The "informer" was, of course, a decoy...
Only one of the 71 freshman Democrats elected in 1974, Representative Allan T. Howe of Utah, is currently running behind his opponent, and his political troubles stem almost entirely from a conviction on charges of soliciting a police-decoy prostitute this summer. Aside from Howe, about 20 other freshmen representatives are involved in close re-election contests, but 12 of them were leading their Republican opponents in polls taken in October...
...American candidate puts the stats and this year's "decoy" status in the right perspective. "It's really not the numbers, you can't think about them. Last year, for instance, I just kept thinking it was bound to end. I could catch 14 one Saturday and none the next. Realistically, I didn't give the slightest thought to catching 56 passes again. I could catch 60 and it wouldn't matter if we didn...
...parked car. They exchanged greetings and Howe told the women he was looking for a party. After some brief conversation Howe realized that the women were not the people who were supposed to meet him. He told them he thought they looked familiar and wondered if they were police decoys. (Salt Lake's decoy program had been well-publicized for years.) The women denied that they were decoys until one recognized Howe as her congressman. She said that the two of them worked as airport security guards during the day and that she had seen Howe at the airport...