Word: ploy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...outstanding Woodsman finish was caused as much by a brilliant strategy ploy as it was by dogged and consistent running. Just after the mile mark, when things looked bright and rosy for the Crimson--Eichner and Sheehan were in the lead, and the rest of the team was doing well--four of the Dartmouth runners suddenly made a move and surged far ahead...
...Hungary up until the day of Mr. Graham's arrival and visited with a number of pastors who were being persecuted by the very people responsible for inviting Billy Graham to come. Many of the pastors feared that the West would accept their government's ploy as proof that there was true religious freedom in Hungary...
...hopelessness springs eternal on Rhode Island Sound. After three crushing defeats, Australia's loyal underdoggers were busy recalling all the old familiar whiny excuses, among them the "She can only move in light air" ploy. Shamelessly followed this summer by its corollary: "She can only move in heavy air." As the two boats-Australia 44 sec. back-beat up toward the spectator fleet, now placed upwind of the first mark, the word goes round. "Forty-four seconds behind! That's her best first leg ever...
...dissolve, Jerry finds himself questioning his own motives and, finally, his orders, the discipline of his "tradecraft." The object of his sudden, intense affection is Drake Ko's beautiful mistress, Lizzie Worthington, an involvement that jeopardizes Westerby's entire mission. The carefully engineered defection of Nelson Ko becomes a ploy within a ploy with apocalyptic result...
...effort by the President's aides. The normally cool Press Secretary Jody Powell blundered atrociously by phoning several newsmen with the sly tip that Senator Percy might have used corporate aircraft owned by Bell & Howell Co. for personal purposes. The Chicago Sun-Times exposed Powell's ploy after finding no truth to the report...