Word: decoys
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...white police sergeant seriously wounded. A few days earlier, security forces drove a truck through the suburb and, when a crowd began to throw stones at it, officers concealed in wooden boxes atop the vehicle suddenly emerged and fired shotguns into the crowd. Antiapartheid leaders denounced the decoy operation, which South African newspapers dubbed the "Trojan Horse" incident, and thousands of people turned out for the funeral of three youths slain in the fusillade. At week's end the government dispatched hundreds of security agents to keep the peace in Athlone...
...cigarettes, the police swept in and charged him with the murders. They later arrested another of the victims' daughters, who allegedly had promised to pay her then boyfriend West to commit the crime. But West apparently never got his hands on any money--or on his luscious decoy. "He's ugly," Paris said, "and I'm not into add-water-and-stir romances." She added, "We had a date to meet his mother. I guess that...
...Eagles finally popped Northeastern's bubble at 14:00 of the second period, when center Ken Hodge got a two-on-one break with wing Doug Brown against N.U. defenseman Brian Dowd. Using Brown as a decoy, Hodge beat Racine high to the short side from the right face-off circle...
Paradoxically, while the would-be carvers were being drilled in meticulous attention to detail, the true hunters in Easton were out in their blinds behind the crudest decoys in all the land. These were goose decoys, fashioned from old tires, plywood goose heads affixed to the rubber in various attitudes of feeding. They were not proving very effective, but this was not the fault of the decoy, nor of the hunter. There had been a full moon, and the birds had fed at night. Now, in the day, they had no interest in food...
...restaurants during the early 1980s, he would sometimes regale out-of-town clients with such stunts as drinking beer out of his cowboy boot or stuffing a roast quail into his pocket. In his office at Penn Square, he would sport Mickey Mouse ears or a hollowed-out duck decoy on his head. Patterson's lending ideas were just as madcap; his department invested 80% of the bank's lending portfolio in risky oil and gas ventures. Yet neither Patterson's antics nor his business bravura aroused much concern among officials of major banks, who bought...