Word: ploy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They issued well-written and researched pamphlets, staged demonstrations and teach-ins, and gradually attracted attention and support from Afro and the Harvard black community, and then from the white liberal majority. In perhaps their most novel ploy, the blacks early one March morning implanted 500 black crosses in the middle of the Yard to commemorate blacks killed in Africa by Portuguese colonial armies. PALC and Afro supporters spent the day explaining the purpose of the crosses to curious passers-by and gathering petition signatures in support of their position...
...opponent is at least as old as the 16th century Spanish cleric Ruy Lopez de Sigura, who advocated placing the chessboard so that it would reflect light into the opponent's eyes. Smoke blowing is probably almost as old. Finger drumming on the table is a despicable ploy, and as a distracting gambit it is forbidden in formal play. So are humming and singing. But there are subtler, quieter ways of psyching. Many players have been accused of trying to hypnotize opponents. Former World Champion Mikhail Tal has been credited with a "laserlike gaze," and Bobby Fischer with...
CHESSMANSHIP. The late Stephen Potter, Field Martial of Gamesmanship, conceived this classic chess ploy before Bobby Fischer pushed his first pawn. Challenged, the Summer Gamesman makes three random moves and resigns...
GUESTMANSHIP. Debuting guests of an athletic Host can be unbothered through Sept. 21 by using variations of the Substitute-Weapon Ploy. If the Host lives near a golf course, the Guest arrives sporting a vigorous smile - and a tennis racket. If the Host has his own ostentatiously tended tennis court, the Guest arrives with a vigorous smile and an archery set. Note: exuberance is as important as the Substitute Weapon. This July, armed with the proper smile, a nonswimmer was able to approach the edge of his Host's pool carrying a bowling ball. His words "but I thought...
...gave the same reason for the 1964 visit to the Mayo Clinic. In 1966, when he returned to Mayo for shock treatments, his law office issued a statement that he was at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore for gastric tests. Eagleton admitted last week that the story was "a ploy, because when you need rest you need rest from the press." Eagleton's brother Mark, a physician, told newsmen after the rumors about Tom had started that Tom had really never left St. Louis. Last week Mark finally confessed: "The truth is important, but for us now the most...