Word: ploy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this week's vote, Heath outfoxed Wilson with a brilliant parliamentary ploy. Both party leaders had insisted all along that their members heel to the party whips in the vote; each nonetheless faced the prospect of rebellion among followers committed to the other point of view. The Tories have an overall majority of 25 in the 627-member House, but Heath's party managers counted 30 certain rebel votes in their ranks, leaving the Prime Minister dependent on Labor votes...
Even though Twigs ends on a note of high comedy (for Furth has arranged his acts so that their verbal and visual humor overtakes their early bleakness, a ploy more justifiable dramatically than thematically), it leaves behind an echo of resignation that has just barely escaped despair. None of the daughters is quite the equal of the mother, although each is herself somehow tough enough to accept the increasingly limited possibilities life offers. But then, as Emily says. "If life were perfect, we wouldn't have to go through...
Regarding Nelson's possible libel suit Barnes said, "Either he (Nelson) is doing it for a joke or as a campaign ploy--he might be trying to get publicity...
...charge was just one in a number of attempts to undermine his growing influence with other cons. "This is all a well-thought out effort to frighten me...I guess they want to show me and those around me here how powerless I am in their hands." However, the ploy, Jackson asserts, is not going to work...
...182c, "Modern Vietnam," has plummeted from 195 last Spring to half that number this Fall. A dozen people showed up at the first meeting of Sam Popkin's graduate seminar on "Revolution and Politics in Vietnam." Four people are enrolled in "Elementary Vietnamese." China courses are packed. Nixon's ploy appears to be working...