Word: feinting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unfortunately, Winston Churchill, the most persuasive of the Allied leaders, loved feint and diversion. "Periphery pecking," the Americans called it, a strategy they felt wasted lives, time and matériel even as Germany rushed ahead with new weapons, including a possible atomic bomb. Churchill got his way in North Africa, Sicily and Italy, but Wedemeyer's heartland strategy was what focused Allied might in the decisive battle. To this day Wedemeyer believes that the Allies squandered a splendid opportunity by not invading in 1943. Had they occupied Europe and stopped the Soviets at their border, he says...
...already set a date for a leadership convention in March, but rather than cobble together a hurried convention to choose a new leader, the party caucus and national executive decided that they would be better off drafting Trudeau. Some viewed his decision to quit the leadership as only a feint designed to lull the Tories into a false sense of security. But one friend insists that "he very genuinely was out, and only with very great difficulty made up his mind to come back...