Word: feinted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While the shock of his left feint is taking hold, Johnson suddenly sends his plot around right end. The capitalist turns out to have a heart after all (though it does not begin to beat until he sees a woman who reminds him of his wife attempt suicide with strychnine rather than face a Russian interrogation), and the Russians are vigorously presented as heels. Johnson's political gambit is fairly daring to have been executed in Hollywood, 1953; and it may serve, if the picture is a box-office success, to remind moviemakers that there is still...
...when he entered service and had never before been a marine, he was commissioned on the spot. Within a few short weeks in the spring of 1943, he was the key figure in a scheme which convinced the Germans that the attack on Sicily was to be only a feint, led them to weaken Sicily's defenses and so save any number of Allied lives. The odd part of it was that William Martin accomplished all this without lifting a finger. Major Martin, in fact, was dead when he was commissioned...
Wylie agrees, particularly where defensive play is concerned. "I've noticed you can always work one trick," he says. "When you see the back whom you're supposed to 'mark' getting near you, you make a feint to tackle him. That makes him pass to the back next him. Then, when the ball's left him, you run forward, and chances are you'll intercept the pass and break away safe with the ball...
Diplomacy by Swoon "The latest diplomatic feint," said a U.N. wag last week, "is the dead faint." The trend was set by Iran's new Premier Mossadeq, who swoons whenever he gets really worked up during a political speech (TIME, May 21). Last week, Israel's U.N. Delegate Abba S. Eban, a good deal younger (36) than Iran's 70-year-old Premier and far more robust, followed the fashion: at the end of an hour-long speech before the Security Council, Eban blanched, staggered out of the Council chamber and keeled over in the corridor...
...bright as well as a dark side to MacArthur's stalemate. The Chinese, as well as the allied forces, seemed to be pinned down in Korea. Since they intervened, their program of aggression and expansion in Asia had gained nothing. They failed to follow up their feint in Tibet; they stood idly by while Ho Chi Minh's Communists in Indo-China and the Communist-led Huks in the Philippines got their ears pinned back; Burma, Siam, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Formosa and Japan are as intact as they were last November...