Word: decoying
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...detect an incoming missile while it is still high in space. As soon as the missile has been "acquired," another radar (Zeus Discrimination Radar) will zero in and decide whether the approaching object is actually an enemy warhead, or a decoy, or a bit of space flotsam. If it is a warhead, the missile will be turned over to a third radar, which will track it until the time comes to shoot it down with a three-stage Nike Zeus rocket. All this will be automatic, and it will happen too quickly for human hand or brain to follow...
...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...
...issue of foreign trade that the companies have invoked appears likewise a decoy, since besides the argument against the steel companies on free trade grounds the foreign commerce involved is only a few per cent of total steel trade...
...Battle of the Sibuyan Sea: Halsey mistook Kurita's original reversal of course for genuine retirement, believed the overenthusiastic damage reports of his carrier pilots, and decided Kurita was out of the fighting. Meanwhile, Halsey had discovered the approach from the north of Admiral Ozawa-thanks to Decoy Ozawa's zealous efforts to get himself found. Jap carriers? They were Halsey's meat. With a blurry and misunderstood message to Seventh Fleet, he ordered his entire Third Fleet to head north after Ozawa-leaving San Bernardino Strait wide open for Kurita...