Word: ploy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more than a week in his efforts to put together a new government in the wake of the Israeli commando attack on Beirut's airport. Stymied in his attempts to satisfy all of Lebanon's myriad religious-political factions, Karami finally was forced to resort to a ploy: he simply named a 16-man Cabinet and presented it to President Charles Helou without bothering to seek the approval of balky opposition leaders. Though two of the incoming ministers at first refused to accept their posts, the other 14 began work immediately. There was at least a possibility that...
Name That Tune. Nettled by similar unkindnesses perpetrated by the BBC, the Soviets last week struck back at their Western tormentors. An article in the government newspaper Izvestia charged the BBC with "involvement in the most seamy operations" of British agents operating in Eastern European nations. One ploy, Izvestia reported, was to play certain tunes at prearranged times, thus enabling a British spy to forecast such events and so prove to local recruits that he was a bona fide spook. The BBC dismissed the charges as ridiculous, and in its own sly way mocked the paper's paranoia...
...ploy backfired when two of the witnesses escaped their security chaperons and took refuge with the Norwegian delegation to the Council. Next day, Pantelis Marketakis, 33, and Konstantine Meletis, 38, testified before the commission, and later related to the press what they had said...
With a Micrometer. Johnson's decision was of the kind few outgoing chief executives have ever had to face. It was complicated immensely by the closeness of the election; he had to judge whether a halt would help Humphrey or be considered a cynical ploy. All the same, when he announced a partial bombing halt last March 31, and simultaneously renounced a second term in office, his popularity rating spurted 13 points. Were Humphrey's standing in the polls to increase by even a third of that amount, his already growing chances to overtake Richard Nixon...
...appear a concession to Soviet demands. The other problem came into being only last week when a group of Communists in Frankfurt publicly proclaimed the founding of a new party that pledges its allegiance to the democratic concepts of the West German constitution. The allegiance device is a tactical ploy that attempts to circumvent the West German law under which the old party was outlawed as an "antidemocratic party...