Word: feint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Apprehensive lest they be made the victims of the fanciest sort of diplomatic feint, in London and Paris Lord Halifax and Premier Daladier sat tight, kept their guns trained on one enemy at a time-the Nazis. There would be plenty of time to see if an amazing double cross was the beginning of an entirely different crusade, a fantastically crooked diplomatic square dance with everybody suddenly changing partners...
...large section of the world's diplomats believe that five weeks ago Chancellor Hitler made a feint in Czechoslovakia's direction when he moved 170,000 troops into "summer barracks" nearer the border. He had just Nazified Austria while French and Germans stood by with open mouths. Their mouths were still open when the Reich's soldiers began ominously moving around on their side of the Czechoslovak border. In this crisis the Czechoslovakian Republic, the keystone of democracy in central Europe, marched 400,000 troops up to its side of the border and the first German over...
...reared in Chicago. He made the Chicago Tribune Golden Gloves learn in 1920,. Like many Golden Gloves boxers, he promptly turned professional. Unlike most, he won his fights. Last week's was his 23rd victory in a row. All Hebrew lightweights who know how to execute a simple feint are automatically compared with Benny Leonard. Slick little Ross may turn out to justify the analogy better than his predecessors-Sid Terris, Ruby Goldstein, Al Singer-if, as he promised to do last week, he gives Canzoneri, who had held the title for three years, a return match next autumn...
...President Davison, who just left Herbert Hoover's service as Assistant Secretary of War for Aviation, knows he must raise money for the American Museum. It is finishing three new wings, can no longer count on much municipal support. This week Mr. Davison makes his first feint at pocketbooks, by speaking before the New York Advertising Club. Soon he & Mrs. Davison are going to Kenya Colony. Africa, "to see the lions, not shoot them." Their hosts, the camera-wise Martin Johnsons, have two planes which air-wise Mr. & Mrs. Davison may fly for sightseeing...
...coach in the Midwest; if not, the ablest is probably Dr. Walter E. ("Doc") Meanwell of Wisconsin, a stocky, irascible theorist who never played basketball. He now directs practice from a tall perambulator which assistant managers push around the floor. His teams, more than usually adept at blocking and feint dribbling, play smart defensive basketball with one guard always well behind the middle of the floor to break up quick, unexpected advances...