Word: ploy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shot Us Down." Johnson's ploy surprised many and enraged others, especially those among the old Kennedy "Mafia" who had been pressing Bobby's case. "He shot us down," grumbled one of Bobby's friends angrily. Despite the anger, it is likely that Kennedy's friends will rally round the President soon again, for they have no place else to go. And they will probably accept the wisdom of the President's picking someone who approximates his own portrait of the ideal vice-presidential candidate...
...responded to her as to other ingenues they had known. If at the next moment she retorted quickly, they rejoiced at the sharp cliffie they saw in her. So with Gebow. If at one moment he seemed honestly disillusioned and at another to be using his cynicism as a ploy, it did not matter. As the boy and girl speak in such familiar language, the audience could adjust quickly to whatever sort of boy and girl Gebow and Miss Wilson seemed at any moment...
Inexperienced & Groggy. On the convention's eve, Scranton, still clinging to hope, conferred with Henry Cabot Lodge and Nelson Rockefeller, decided upon the desperate ploy of challenging Goldwater to a man-to-man debate before the assembled convention. Scranton ordered his top speechwriter, William Keisling, 28, to draft a letter to Barry demanding the confrontation. Then he went off to make a television appearance...
...Rookie or a Patsy?" Ironically, one factor in solidifying Dirksen's stand for Goldwater came from Scranton himself. On June 22 Scranton flew to Washington, dropped in at Dirksen's office and tried to sell the Senator on becoming a favorite-son candidate in Illinois-an obvious ploy to withhold first-ballot votes from Goldwater. This annoyed Ev. When Scranton left, he phoned a friend and thundered: "What do they think I am? A rookie or a patsy? I certainly am not impressed...
...Scoffer thinks of exams and papers as jousts between himself and the grader. He tries to please the grader, to "psych him out," to catch his fancy with a gimmick. A typical Scofer ploy is to make a highly improbable comparison: "What Charles Dickens has in common with Channel...