Word: ployed
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...think what happened was both the independent and mainstream press saw me as someone who was calling out that this was an issue simply for attention, that basically nothing was going to come of this and this was just a publicity ploy of sorts. They didn't see it as being a serious issue or that I was under any threat. Once they realized that the alarm was real, and it had a consequence, and that I wasn't being a town crier for no reason, they realized that it was time that we all start discussing this issue...
...given personal papers Nixon wanted to donate to the archives, along with an affidavit, prepared by a manuscripts dealer, indicating the President had handed over the documents a year earlier, when old tax law would have afforded him a $450,000 tax benefit. Livingston spoke up about the ploy, prompting Congress to rule the deduction was improper...
...elderly Brit, take issue with Kinsley? He followed the politicians' favorite ploy of having one's cake and eating it too. In the first years of World War II, the U.S. was loath to engage the Nazis in a foreign war. It wasn't until that era's "9/11 moment"-the attack on Pearl Harbor-that the U.S. woke up and realized there was a terrible war of civilizations going on. But, boy, when you did wake up, you didn't go to sleep again. In Britain we were being slaughtered, and we were mighty thankful to see the Yanks...
...elderly Brit take issue with Kinsley? He followed the politicians' favorite ploy of having one's cake and eating it too. In the first years of World War II, the U.S. was loath to engage the Nazis in a foreign war. It wasn't until that era's "9/11 moment" - the attack on Pearl Harbor - that the U.S. woke up and realized there was a terrible war of civilizations going on. But, boy, when you did wake up, you didn't go to sleep again. In Britain we were being slaughtered, and we were mighty thankful to see the Yanks...
...side into the Science Center’s Greenhouse Café. He kisses her hand as they sit down. Affectionate and playful, the newlywed couple tease each other and complete one another’s sentences. “I actually had a crush on his roommate. In a ploy to get his roommate to go out with me, I invited all of his roommates to go to see ‘The DaVinci Code,’” Amy says of their first date. “This was the only one willing to drop everything...