Word: ploy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that his diplomatic immunity had been revoked. Then one Russian searched Langelle's topcoat, claimed to find a notebook, which Langelle had never seen before. Sure enough, when the Russian applied a handy chemical solution to its pages, he found invisible ink notes on Soviet secrets. The ploy: the notebook looked like prefabricated evidence for a sure-to-convict espionage trial against Langelle...
...ploy didn't work. Langelle refused to talk about his embassy work. The Russian., threatened him with what the official U.S. note of protest politely called "physical violence," warned him that harm could come to his wife Miriam and their three small children. At length the Russians promised him money if he would spy on U.S. diplomats. After an hour and 45 minutes of this, the Russians gave up, let him loose at the corner where they captured...
...Rayburn's top lieutenant, Missouri's Richard Bolling, based his strategy on a civil-rights sleeper that had somehow slipped unnoticed into the Landrum-Griffin bill. The Southern conservatives would never vote for a bill containing such a clause. If Bolling could keep his civil-rights ploy undiscovered until past the parliamentary deadline for amendments, he could then reveal its presence and split the ranks of Southern conservatives. Craftily, Rayburn's strategists laid a booby trap for Southerners who were routinely hunting for civil-rights hookers by leaking a phony tip to Columnist Drew Pearson that...
...skeptics pointed to the ice-cold fact that the Berlin crisis still lurks unsolved in the background. If Khrushchev brought on the Berlin crisis back in November 1958 to force the West to a summit meeting, his ploy had worked: without yielding the West any concession on Berlin except postponement, he had gained a prize that he may have wanted more than a summit meeting: a Big Two meeting, viewed in Soviet policy as a step toward the basic goal of breaking up the U.S.'s alliances in Europe and Asia...
Quadros' ploy neatly bracketed the position of his rival Lott, who is also backed by the Communists and came out against Brazilian-Soviet relations to forestall charges of making pacts with the Reds. Quadros fears no such label, can afford a play for increased trade. The idea was an immediate hit at home...