Word: ploy
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...Soviet Union's Delegate Semyon K. ("Scratchy") Tsarapkin insisted that the opening agenda be confined to the Soviet proposal that all nations cut their defense budgets by 10% to 15%. While rejecting this as another unenforceable Red propaganda ploy, the U.S. consented to debate it-but only along with such American proposals as a freeze on nuclear missile and warhead production. This Scratchy scratched...
...critic affects the intellectual-detachment ploy. "How many political systems have come and gone since Sophocles wrote his plays?" he asks with the air of a man asking the unanswerable question. Far from swallowing his traditional cigar in chagrin, the CIA man briskly points out that only seven of Sophocles' 100 plays still exist. The rest were destroyed by the forces of war and political rivalry. With irrefutable logic, he finally gets the uncommitted aesthete to agree that "art is long-provided the barbarians don't get their hands on it." The guy can shoot...
...obvious solution is a compromise. According to The Economist, de Gaulle would promise Erhard his support of the general purposes of the Kennedy tariff negotiations if Germany would concede France's agricultural demands. By this ploy he would achieve his immediate aim and at the same time avoid committing himself to the specifics of the Kennedy rounds. Claiming he had only supported the goals and not the details of the tariff negotiations, he would be in a position to sabotage them and thus promote an independent Europe, stretching from the Atlantic to the Urals, with himself as its elder statesmen...
...Russian Ploy...
...equally paradoxial statements, the Administration denied the validity of evidence that Russia had bowed out of the moon race. It claimed that Premier Khrushchev's disavowal of Soviet interest in putting a man on the moon was only a ploy to slow down American efforts. This suggested that the Administration was anxious to continue using the word "race" regardless of Russian intentions...