Word: ploy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...political sense and is the most widely admired of the three. He came up through the engineers corps -traditionally the army's "intellectual" branch-and has degrees in both law and engineering. He does not now appear to be pressing for leadership, but that could be a wise ploy rather than an indication of his ultimate goal. Were he to emerge too early as an aspirant to the presidency, he might not survive in Brazil's military-political jungle...
...Congressman, he could be sly in good causes and in partisan ones. When he overthrew Charles Halleck as House minority leader, he managed to create the impression that he and Gerald Ford had split the rebel forces. Actually, they were united, and the putative split was a ploy. Once, just after Minority Leader Ford and his eminence grise. Laird, gave a critical talk on Viet Nam policy, advocating more bombing and naval action, Laird said to a friend: "Jerry really believes that bombing baloney." Now his reputation for sleight of tongue has become a bit of a bother...
...ruled Spain for 231 years before his grandfather fled the throne in 1931, does not represent a restoration of the old dynasty. On the contrary, he argues, Juan Carlos represents the start of a new dynasty that owes nothing to the past. From a legal standpoint, Franco's ploy blocks the claims of Juan Carlos' father Don Juan, (who now lives in Portugal) and those of other pretenders to the throne, since Franco has not restored the old line but started a new one, whose first-born sons will from now on become the Kings of Spain...
Compromise Talk. In addition, central bankers strongly suspect that South Africa has deposited some of its gold in foreign banks and subtracted the deposits from its figures on gold reserves. That ploy would tend to make the boycott look even more ineffective than it is. British statistics show that $222 million in South African gold entered the U.K. last year. Most of it is probably to be found in South Africa's account at the Bank of England, which does not divulge what it is holding-but which has received South African gold ever since that country...
...projection of his own radical intention to challenge the gods-in fact, to become God. All humbling conceptions of man's relationship to the unknown, the author insists, are bad. Even the Hindu's striving for the oblivion of nirvana, he asserts, is a subtle passive-resistance ploy to achieve godhood...