Word: ploy
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deputy, Robert Grey, a career State Department official, choosing to give in to the challenge of a few conservative Republican Senators, including North Carolina's Jesse Helms. Reagan, in fact, finally dropped Grey's name from consideration. White House aides leaked word that this was really a ploy to get Rostow angry enough to quit. They maintained that Rostow treated the President with professorial condescension, was too prickly to deal with and offered his opinions on matters beyond his official duties. They were especially irritated by Rostow's objections to parts of the Administration's Middle...
...Thatcher's own political fortunes. Her supporters cheered the 8,000-mile journey, which began shrouded in secrecy until her rugged Hercules transport plane touched down on the new airstrip at Port Stanley, the capital. Thatcher called it her "personal pilgrimage." Her adversaries called it a crass political ploy, calculated to appeal to British nationalism and boost the Prime Minister's standing in time for the election she is expected to call later this year...
There is a sharp division of opinion in Washington as to how the U.S. negotiators in Geneva should be instructed to reply. The Pentagon counsels simply saying no and insisting on Reagan's zero-zero plan. Defense officials dismiss Andropov's bid as a mere propaganda ploy. They fear that if the U.S. makes a counterproposal, Moscow will ask European governments to delay installation of the American missiles while negotiations continue, then stall the talks endlessly, in effect blocking deployment of the Pershing IIs and cruises without yielding anything...
Otherwise let us take courage and remind ourselves that trials like these strengthen character in the end; let us silence the sinister skeptics among us who suggest that this is really curtains forever for "Doonesbury" --that Trudeau's line about a "vacation" is a ploy to ease readers into the more terrible truth--and finally, let us fantasize. Maybe Garry Trudeau still draws a strip every day and puts it away in a drawer. Maybe in 1984 at the end of his sabbatical, he'll set them all free--more than 500 brand new sequences, more than 2000 new frames...
...caller opens the screen door and asks, as a ruse, for a guy named Joe who supposedly lives there. Raul (James Russo) is one of nature's punks. He exudes malignant animal magnetism. As the world is his jungle, women are his chosen prey. Marjorie tries a feeble ploy about a policeman husband asleep upstairs, but Raul knows better. He rips the phone cord out of the wall and pins Marjorie to the floor as he semi-suffocates her with a pillow...