Word: ploy
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lombino. A panicky Campione called Sportelli in Rome to find out if he should tell the FBI the truth. The SISMI foreign-intelligence boss immediately called "M," the CIA agent in Rome who was serving as the agency's liaison in the Dozier case and explained the entire ploy...
...have brought a series of minor brushes as Israeli units tried to pass U.S. Marine checkpoints outside Beirut and were turned back; in the ugliest incident so far, a Marine captain brandished a pistol and turned away a trio of Israeli tanks. U.S. officials are convinced that the tank ploy was a deliberate act of provocation and that Sharon was behind it. Said a U.S. official: "Someone was trying to make some points...
Earlier this month, Hyster announced that the game was over, and Oregon had lost. "With great reluctance," said Kilkenny, Hyster would phase out a 53-year-old Portland plant, furloughing about 300 workers. In response to Hyster's ploy, the other states kept their plants when the music stopped but it cost them a cool $24.1 million...
...flash of the eyes, ragging her estranged husband for not feeling pain as exquisitely as she does. But there are some moments no one could bring to life. Who could infuse dramatic tension into the leisurely reading of a newspaper? What actress could bring off that old Oscar-cadging ploy, the sudden quiet hysterics in a bubble bath...
...science" of all of this, of course, seems improbable at best. (Even a believer in time travel might expect the research company to take the precaution of keeping their experiments clear of the Baja 1000.) But if we forgive the technological inconsistencies surrounding Swann's journey through time, the ploy presents some lively possibilities...