Word: ploy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that countless parents start their children drinking. One San Francisco attorney turns on all three of his children, including his six-year-old. Still other parents respond by taking a kindlier view of early drinking, in hopes that their children will find liquor an acceptable alternative to pot. That ploy often fails, mainly because so many youths are convinced that marijuana is less harmful than "juice...
Still, his forbidding public image makes Couve's personality a political issue in France. Though many Frenchmen recognize that his remoteness has been an effective diplomatic ploy, they worry that he may lack the capacity for compassion that a Premier in France should have at present. After all, his main duty will be to direct a reform program whose goal is to redress potentially explosive grievances in French society. Two of the major groups with which he must deal, the students and workers, are in no mood to accept highhanded treatment from the government. Still, Couve...
...OPEN SKIES," 1955. At the Geneva summit conference, President Eisenhower suggested a bold plan for aerial surveillance of all military installations, including nuclear facilities. The idea had not been favored by most U.S. military men, and the Russians rejected it as an espionage ploy. The Russians countered with a ground checkup system -which Eisenhower accepted in principle-but the idea fell through when Moscow would allow only three token look-sees a year. Today there is still no formal inspection procedure, although satellite surveillance and seismic detection devices have made it easier to keep track of nuclear installations and large...
...guides and scouts for regular forces flooding in from the countryside once the offensive begins. Farther out in the countryside-an area that they consider already "liberated"-they have ordered their forces to establish "G.I. killing belts" around U.S. installations. Near the tiny Vietnamese militia outposts, their favorite ploy is to use loudspeakers to sympathize with men "drafted for an unjust cause" and invite them to move out of the camp...
...cool ploy, Brandt openly mused whether the East German moves were indeed serving the best interests of the Soviet Union. He explained that Ulbricht's aggressive actions only encouraged the rise of right-wing extremism in West Germany and strengthened the obduracy of conservative elements that oppose West German ratification of the nuclear nonproliferation treaty, which Russia and the U.S. jointly sponsor...