Word: ploy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rachel Adams (see cut), a woman to keep her own counsel, has already moved on to another ploy in the intra-family gamesmanship: Can her husband tell the difference between Vermont and New Hampshire maple syrup? Tentative decision...
...nation's highest-piled governor (6 ft. 8 in.), Alabama's James E. ("Kissin' Jim") Folsom, autocratically took off to qualify also as the highest-flying. His recent ploy, now under investigation by the Air Force: commandeering Alabama's National Guard airplanes to haul Kissin' Jim and his cronies to one of this fall's football games. On New Year's Eve, the Alabama Polytechnic Institute team will take on Vanderbilt University in the "Gator" Bowl game at Jacksonville, Fla. Kissin' Jim plans to be there, free-loaded, with room...
Where to go and what to do is simple. You show her an amazingly good time on the first date, unless you're me, in which case you don't spend a red cent because you don't haveit to spare. The flat-broke ploy is good because she'll know then that your daddy isn't sending you through, and you're either a self-made man or a scholarship boy--attractive in either case...
...Britain's top satirists, Stephen Potter, 55, in his puckish tomes on Lifemanship and Gamesmanship, has extolled the advantages of "oneupmanship" , (i.e., the use of the ploy, and the art of getting away with it). As one of Britain's top experts on courtship, Marriage Bureaucrat Heather Jenner, 39, in a recent bestseller called Marriage Is My Business, claims to have arranged some 5,000 successful matings. As a result of indoctrinating her clients with some mystical principles of reciprocal oneupmanship, only three of those matches, testifies Heather, have ended in divorce. Last week, however, a gentleman farmer...
Long before he won control of the New York Central management, Robert R. Young liked to scourge the "goddamned bankers" and attack railroad operators while he championed the poor, neglected passengers. Crusader Bob's most effective ploy was a cartoon of a pig. fat and sassy in his freight car, looking down on a bedraggled, luggage-laden human traveler and his family changing trains. Hooted the ad: "A hog can cross the country without changing trains...