Word: ploy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time Harvard began to move, against a second string line, it was too late. The action was nonetheless interesting. Harshbarger advanced 47 yards on a double reverse ploy with Bilodeau, and Bilodeau took hand-offs and pitchouts from Bartolet to gain the rest of the necessary yardage...
...delays as anything more than temporary. Even France knows that if it keeps Britain out, it will be isolated from its partners in the Six-all of whom favor Britain's admission into the club. One top German official saw the stalemate as only a plot ploy in the Common Market melodrama. "The drama has started," he said. "I can see exits with doors slamming, tears, shouts of rage, devious subplots involving doublecrossing, and all the rest. But I am completely convinced that this is no tragedy. Late in the third act, everything is going to turn...
...course). He blazed away at the kneeling Sukarno, missed him, but wounded five persons around him. The Indonesians tried to implicate the Dutch in this fifth attempt on Sukarno's life in five years by declaring that the assassin's pistol was "Dutch made." But the ploy was as trans parent as the halfhearted invasion of Netherlands New Guinea last week, in which 40 Indonesian paratroopers dropped into the Dutch colony and were routed by the defenders. Only purpose of the "invasion" seemed to be to keep the Indonesians' minds inflamed against the Dutch-and off their...
...lights went down at the 20th Century-Fox stockholders' meeting last week as Spyros Skouras-beneficent impresario of a troubled corporation-happily announced a preview showing of scenes from new Fox films. The ploy failed. Twenty minutes of movies helped no one to forget that Fox lost $22.5 million on last year's operations, and next year's hopes rest entirely with the $30 million production of Cleopatra. The fact that Liz Taylor's take from Cleopatra will exceed $1,300,000 brought a bitter joke; a furious stockholder nominated her for the board of directors...
G.O.P. Whip Les Arends gasped, "I'm astonished." Halleck and Arends were roiled not by a new Democratic ploy, but by a political move from one of their own: New York's Representative William Miller, who doubles in brass as chairman of the Republican National Committee...