Word: ploy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jackson and other congressional admirers have been saving Rickover's programs-and Rickover-from the Pentagon ax since 1953. The Navy had devised a none too subtle ploy to force the crusty, cantankerous then captain into retirement by reducing him to working out of a converted ladies' room and twice passing him over for promotion. But many on Capitol Hill shared his dream of an all-nuclear fleet, no matter what the cost. At their insistence, the Navy moved him to better quarters and eventually promoted him to full admiral. Since 1965, when he reached retirement...
...stage, fluttering their arms, striking desolate poses and sighing for one Reginald Bunthorne: poet and poseurpar excellence. Bunthorne's dedication, you see, is not so much to his art as to himself. His aestheticism, which issues in a poetry devoted to colocynth and calomel, is mere affectation, a ploy designed to elicit the admiration of his gullible Victorian public...
...ploy works, but this production ofPatienceis less successful. Not devoid by any means of energy and talent, Patience is still spotty by Gilbert & Sullivan Society standards, suffering from uneven acting and the familiarity of director P.D. Seltzer's gimmickry...
Callaghan's ploy nevertheless left Tory Leader Thatcher furious. "This is a defeat with dishonor!" she snapped at a press conference. "No government has ever sunk so low-refusing to put its policies to a vote in the House of Commons." Indeed, Thatcher added, "We have no government...
Callaghan's gamble on slicing through such secondary matters with the guillotine could have proved a deft ploy. Had it passed, the devolution bill, carrying the hopes of important Scottish and Welsh constituencies, would have been hard to turn down. But too many M.P.s of all parties resented the attempt to end the debate. Then the Tory shadow spokesman on devolution, Francis Pym, proposed an alternative-an all-party convention to discuss the whole devolution matter. The adroit Tory maneuver may have encouraged wavering Laborites to defect on the guillotine vote...