Word: ploy
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...first blossomed. Gathered at the L.B.J. ranch for a working holiday with the President were Dean Rusk, Robert McNamara, McGeorge Bundy and Bill Moyers. The four enthusiastically recommended it to Johnson, but the President feared that so dramatic and massive a campaign might be mistaken for a public relations ploy or, worse, an indication of U.S. lack of resolve in the war. But Johnson was willing to consider it further. "All right," he said, "I want you to start looking at this from every angle, from all sides." But, he warned, it must be done in complete secrecy. "The worst...
Lull on the Ground. The idea of a holiday from death was first proposed on Dec. 7 by the Viet Cong, which does not celebrate the birth of Christ. Since it was plainly intended as a propaganda ploy, the Communist offer of a twelve-hour cease-fire was at first ignored in Washington and Saigon. Finally, though still skeptical that the Communists would honor their commitment, the U.S. last week raised the ante and proposed a 30-hour truce...
Backed by the Supreme Court ruling, the Justice Department intends to repeat its ploy of bringing top hoods before grand juries and promising them immunity if they testify. If any feel tempted to sing, they have only to remember the late unlamented Manny Skar, a lippy mobster who was unwise enough to threaten to talk to federal authorities if the boys refused to treat him right. They promptly treated him right. Manny was getting out of his car in the basement of his North Side apartment in September when he was shot dead by a couple of the boys...
...live increasingly in a separate enclave or "subculture" is the ever-lengthening education process. In no other civilization have so many of the young been kept so long from the responsibilities of adult life. This prolongation of the school years, argues British Sociologist Frank Musgrove, is partly a ploy by the adult world to keep the young out of competition as long as possible, for, he asserts, the "mature of Western society" regard the young "with hatred." With people living longer and retaining their vigor into advanced age, there is certainly less disposition by the mature to make way-although...
Nerve Test. Strauss & Co.'s most outrageous ploy was to threaten Erhard that Strauss might take his Bavarians out of the C.D.U. altogether, the implication being that he might then form a majority with the opposition Social Democrats. "They have their nerve," growled Erhard to an aide. In fact, he knew, they didn't have that much nerve, and when the time was right, he put them to the test. At a series of caucuses ending last week in the ornate Palais Schaumburg, Erhard's official residence, the Chancellor informed his adversaries that Schröder would...