Word: feinted
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...area was lifted, more than 50,000 U.S. and South Vietnamese troops were involved in strikes that not only spanned the length of South Viet Nam but vitally affected its neighbors as well. Was the main object to sever the famed Ho Chi Minh Trail? Was it a feint to throw the Communists off balance? Was an invasion scheduled and then delayed because Nixon developed a case of cold feet?as some sources suggested but the Administration denied? Whatever the case, the operation suggested that in the process of retreating from South Viet Nam, the U.S. was churning...
Francisco Rodriguez, a representative of the United Farm Workers' grape boycott, also offered to hold elections. But after a short squabble over several previous offers from both sides which had fallen through it became apparent that last night's offer was doomed to become as much of a rhetorical feint as those in the past...
Thirty seconds later, Larry had changed the visions to nightmares as he ended the bout with two cuts that hit the top of my head, and the final touch which started out as a feint to the head but ended as a cut to the chest, which later developed in to a scarlet welt...
...woman he now wants, Mrs. Sullen (Maggie Smith), has had but one melancholy tutor: her husband. He is an alcoholic brute who keeps her in the country when her only heaven is London. As the chase quickens, the ladies profess virtues which they could scarcely wish to possess. The feint and parry of amour ends well, with the lout of a husband paid off for a divorce and the pairs of lovers united. One does not regret the convention that they will live happily ever after, but one does regret somewhat the amount of time that they have...
Western experts have assembled four theories to explain why Russia chose the violent tactic now. One possibility is that the Soviets never considered seriously any other solution to the Czechoslovak problem. The sweet reasonableness at Cierna was all a feint. They could also have come to Cierna in the hope of finding-and aiding-a rebellious rump group in Dubcek's party leadership, and failed. Or they might have decided, after watching post-Cierna Czechoslovakia, that Dubcek simply could not or did not want to deliver on their demands of holding down his reforms. Finally, the invasion could have...