Word: ploy
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...that the only way to achieve that was for F. L. Jacobs to be placed in the hands of a court receiver. Charged SEC: Jacobs Co. assets were being "dissipated, misused and alienated," and Guterma was "deliberately walking out" on loan obligations he backed with Jacobs Co. stock. This ploy, alleged SEC, forced the moneylenders who had accepted Jacobs stock as collateral for loans to sell it to regain their funds...
Carl August Sandburg, 81-year-old poet of the American dream and of Lincoln's greatness, raised the political ploy into a true and moving memorial service. In 19 spellbinding minutes that brought tears even to the eyes of Dixie Senators, Sandburg chiseled his finest tribute to the Lincoln "invisibly there, today, tomorrow and for a long time yet to come in the hearts of lovers of liberty...
Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson could hardly have had a more opportune week to start his Senate Preparedness Subcommittee on a full-dress investigation of the state of the nation's defenses. In Moscow Nikita Khrushchev, in his latest ploy of missile oneupmanship, boasted that the U.S.S.R. now had assembly-line production of intercontinental ballistic missiles with pinpoint accuracy "to any part of the globe." In Washington President Eisenhower scoffed politely, said that U.S. missile progress was "remarkable" and "going forward as rapidly as possible. I think it is a matter for pride on the part of America...
Though the 854 Russian technicians have brought along their families to India, they employ no servants. They ride in buses instead of private cars or Jeeps. The Russians work 16 hours a day, are careful never to mention politics. But the most effective Soviet ploy of all has been their insistence that every Russian of top rank must have his Indian counterpart. "Here," says one enthusiastic Indian at Bhilai, "we work shoulder to shoulder with the Russians. Elsewhere, we work under the foreigners...
...funny at all, instead sting with bitterness and poignancy, e.g., the numbing isolation of a small boy whose braying mother prefers his brother. "I'm against the misuse of power of all kinds," says Feiffer. "I'm against people who use their views and authority as a ploy against others...