Word: ployed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with other departments and gain control of the central administration." If such a man becomes boss, there soon develops "an actual competition in stupidity, people pretending to be even more brainless than they are." The only cure for such a situation, according to Parkinson, is the old Trojan Horse ploy: "An individual of merit penetrates the outer defenses . . . babbling about golf and giggling feebly, losing documents and forgetting names . . . Only when he has reached high rank does he suddenly throw off the mask . . . With shrill screams of dismay the high executives find ability right there in the midst of them...
...Russians' jet-fueled ploy had some propaganda value, calling attention to the fact that they are ahead in the passenger-jet field. One side effect: the British, apparently suffering from wounded pride, hurriedly announced that they will fly a revamped Comet II this week from Northern Ireland to Orlando...
...TIME, June 24), finally last week passed it by a vote of 286 to 126. By the usual procedure, under Senate Rule 25, the House's bill seemed headed for the Eastland committee. But California's Minority Leader William F. Knowland was ready with a fast parliamentary ploy: he invoked 80-year-old Rule 14, under which a member can request that a House-passed measure "be placed on the calendar," thereby keeping it out of committee...
...Commander Allan Noble countered with a resolution urging the Greek government to shut off shipments of Greek arms and money to the Cypriot rebels. Turkey's Selim Sarper charged that Greece's sole interest in Cyprus was "territorial aggrandizement" and solemnly advanced the current Turkish ploy: if Greece insists on self-determination for Cyprus, Turkey will insist that the island be partitioned between its 400,000 Greek and 100,000 Turkish inhabitants. Patently determined to avoid entanglement in a quarrel between three NATO members, the U.S. earnestly entreated the U.N. to do nothing. "The adoption of these resolutions...
...talks to alumni across the U.S., the dean of admissions of a famous Ivy League university likes to give the old grads a jolt. "If you were to apply for your alma mater today," he is quoted as saying, "only 20% of you would get it." In that particular ploy, the dean is not alone. Says Acting President Archibald Macintosh of Haverford College : "I have occasionally talked to alumni about getting into Haverford today and have told them, 'I sometimes doubt if I would have admitted myself...