Word: ploy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Islands Offered. Last week the Russians were using the hapless fishermen in a traditional Communist ploy: in exchange for concessions from the Japanese, they were offering to stop doing what they should not have been doing in the first place. In Tokyo, Aleksandr Ishkov, Soviet minister of fisheries, named the Russians' price for halting its harassment -that Japan scrap its security treaty with the U.S. This was a follow-up to a gambit offered by Nikita Khrushchev, who last month told a group of Japanese visiting in Moscow that he would be willing to hand back Habomai and Shikotan...
...ploy similar to that used on Chicago's aging (74) Negro Representative William Dawson, briefly boomed for Postmaster General. To soothe the feelings of a valuable political ally, Kennedy made the offer, but Dawson knew that a refusal would be quite in order...
...surest way to make an impression on fellow concertgoers is to bring a score and silently read along during the performance. In a recital at Manhattan's Town Hall last week, Canadian Violinist Hyman Bress threatened to render this excellent ploy obsolete. Behind him, as he played Schoenberg's Fantasy Opus 47, the twelve pages of the score were projected on a screen...
...Percentage Ploy. Last week, in Toronto on the last lap of a tour that included hearings in eight Canadian cities, the O'Leary Commission was mulling over proposals that included establishment of a tariff to keep out non-Canadian publications, subsidies and tax benefits for Canadian magazines-and doing nothing at all. The commissioners had heard much testimony in favor of the Canadian publishers' thesis, but here and there another voice was raised. Sardonically noting that as a regional publisher he had to contend with the same competition from Canada's national magazines that they complain...
Cause of the reluctant U.S. switch was a clever Kremlin ploy. Returning from a Communist-subsidized trip to Moscow 18 months ago, a Bolivian professor brought news that the Soviets would be pleased to provide Bolivia with a smelter to refine its own tin ore. Last September Khrushchev buttonholed a Bolivian diplomat at a Manhattan cocktail party to make the offer again, and the pressure became too great for Bolivia to refuse...