Word: ploy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will eventually have no strike force of its own? Who will decide when or whether national interests justify withdrawal of submarines from NATO, particularly if those national interests conflict with U.S. policy? The biggest question of all is whether France's inclusion in the offer was a deliberate ploy by Jack Kennedy to end or at least downgrade Britain's prized "special relationship" with the U.S. The cartoonists went even farther. They not only showed Supermac jumping to Superjack's commands, but De Gaulle and Adenauer as well...
...talks, said U.S. spokesmen, would cover a wide range of topics-NATO, the Common Market, Russia, the Chinese invasion of India, and especially the Congo. This ploy grated on the British. Cried an indignant British newsman: "They couldn't care less about Skybolt! All they want to talk about is the Congo!" But what they did, in fact, was talk about Skybolt...
...idea that this would allow New Yorkers to get something in the way of news to read. But behind this action was the uncomfortable awareness that the Post and Mirror are primarily too weak financially to withstand a strike of any duration. The publishers saw the four-paper ploy as a union attempt to use one group of papers against the other, and so decided to stop the presses en masse...
...Milward Simpson. The last time the two met, in 1958, Hickey beat Simpson. But when Republican Senator-elect Keith Thompson died in late 1960, Hickey resigned the governorship and turned the chair over to Secretary of State Jack Gage, who thereupon appointed Hickey to replace Thompson. Hickey's ploy stirred up a lot of voter discontent. Last week, just after he returned from Washington to get his campaign going, Hickey suffered a heart attack that will keep him sidelined until after the votes are counted...
...million copies of Macmillan's pamphlet, stating why Britain must join Europe, were circulated to every corner of the United Kingdom. At Llandudno young party workers distributed among the delegates hundreds of five-inch lapel badges that bore only one word: "Yes."' Belatedly. anti-Marketeers copied the ploy, but their "No" buttons were overwhelmingly outnumbered. To provide the facts and figures about the Market, Britain's chief negotiator, Lord Privy Seal Edward Heath, interrupted meetings with the Six in Brussels and flew to Wales. Exhibiting all the charm, patience and tenacity that made him a successful chief...