Word: ploy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Morrison in a Louisiana Democratic primary illustrated voter discontent with the President, whom Morrison had backed on most issues. The vote was heaviest against the incumbent in the two areas of the district where racial disturbances had occurred. Rarick also skillfully used rhetoric railing against "professional politicians," a ploy most effective when voters seem to be most frustrated...
...planned to disclose all along, Johnson announced the appointment of Attorney General Nicholas deBelleville Katzenbach, 44, to succeed George W. Ball, 56, who had long been impatient to resign as Dean Rusk's No. 2 man and resume private law practice. Beaming at the success of his ploy, the President went on to inform startled newsmen that he had filled two other major vacancies in the State Department. For the No. 3 job, Under Secretary for Political Affairs, Johnson had selected Eugene Victor Debs Rostow, 53, former dean of the Yale Law School, who is the elder brother...
...appellate court stayed his sentence for two months to allow him to hone a new appeal claiming he was not personally responsible for trying to mail his products from such "titillating" addresses as Intercourse, Pa. As Ginzburg now tells it, the mailing company he hired devised that ploy without his knowledge...
...money by siphoning gasoline from their tanks and selling it. Soldiers set up roadblocks to exact a few rupiahs from every passing vehicle. Schools are supposedly free, but teachers expect donations of money or rice from their students. At ports, longshoremen and police openly loot incoming cargoes; one favorite ploy is to remove the vital parts of imported machinery and sell them back to their desperate owners shortly after delivery...
Though every word rang true emotionally and intellectually, McNamara's speech struck cynics as a public-relations ploy to replace the celebrated ice water in his veins with good old O positive blood, the universal type. The depth-and warmth-of his message even triggered talk that he might be presenting his public credentials for Secretary of State...