Word: ploy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...term papers. Unfortunately, the faculty has been wising up recently and such veteran maneuvers as the missing blue book no longer work. In its place we recommend the following five new fresh approaches to the problem of feigning knowledge: 1) The use of the colon; 2) the graduating senior ploy; 3) The Chinese ploy; 4) The Radcliffe ploy; 5) The room-mate export or phony reference ploy...
Second: the graduating Senior ploy. It is a well known fact that anyone who writes "graduating senior" on his finals usually gets at least one grade higher, or the difference between a C and a B. Some will undoubtedly say that this procedure is highly immoral. On the other hand, since everyone knows examinations are supposed to be graded in an entirely impartial manner, the phrase "gradating senior" should have no more effect that writing "hottentot" or "noblesse oblige." A fimsy defense, indeed but a defense...
...farmer who clings to his own land is denied such benefits as improved seeds, fertilizers, and easy credits. He cannot em ploy labor outside his family. If his resistance is especially fierce, he is classified as a "negative individual" and a kulak. He is driven to the wall by such devices as government production quotas deliberately made so high that he cannot fill them. Often he must give up his private holding because he has failed to meet a quota, or he may be sentenced to one, two or three years' imprisonment. The commissars boast: "We make great prog...