Word: ploy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...committee of students and faculty from Harvard and M.I.T., which has circulated a petition to "restore constitutional government and human rights" and "safeguard the lives of all political prisoners" is concerned that the junta is using Papandreou's fate as a ploy to extract aid from...
...ransom not yet demanded. But they lean toward the belief that he was abducted for political motives. What political motives? They are not sure, but feel that he may be the prisoner of Communists who wish to use him as some sort of intermediary or in a propaganda ploy. They point out, for example, that Thompson knew many of Ho Chi Minh's agents at the time of the Japanese defeat in World...
After the Central Intelligence Agency's covert financing of the National Student Association and other groups was exposed seven weeks ago, Lyndon Johnson reacted with the standard political ploy of appointing a committee to investigate. In this case, at least, the President was not merely taking evasive action. When the committee turned in its report to him last week, Johnson immediately acted on its recommendation that CIA be prohibited by year's end from funding any educational, philanthropic or cultural organization...
...usually enlightened cam pus town of Chapel Hill, N.C., jailed scores of faculty and students for trying to desegregate local public accommodations. To keep the demonstrators quiet, Solicitor (Prosecutor) Thomas Cooper used a ploy of keeping them in a kind of legal limbo by indefinitely postponing their trials. Last week the Supreme Court voided the ploy, and in the process made history: for the first time, the court extended the Sixth Amendment right of speedy trial to all American courts...
...month-to-month basis, the SST must get some $250 million in new funds if construction is to begin this summer. And rather than see their delivery dates postponed well beyond 1974, the airlines are likely to come through with the cash. As it is, the Administration ploy is no great surprise. New Transportation Secretary Alan S. Boyd, whose department will take over the SST, was not exactly speaking sotto voce last month when he told Senators at his confirmation hearings that "I would like to see private enterprise put up as much money as it possibly could. You know...