Word: ployes
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Meanwhile, the miners were digging in their heels. The president of the National Union of Mineworkers, Joe Gormley, bluntly declared that the emergency cutbacks amounted to nothing more than "a big political ploy to put the problems of the country on the backs of the miners. This kind of talk only hardens the attitude of the men." Aggravating the situation were two other labor disputes: engineers in power stations and railway workers refused to work overtime and Sundays until they received substantial wage increases...
Opponents of the proposal welcomed the delay. "It's a ploy to give us time to fight this thing, and arouse the opposition of the citizens who will be most affected by it," councillor Saundra Graham said after the meeting...
Nixon wanted to get rid of Cox for reasons that are not too hard to imagine. And the only sacrifice he had to make for this little ploy was the loss of Elliot Richardson's decency at the Justice Department. Decency, however, is a commodity of little worth in the Nixon administration...
DOWN YOUR HEAD, SAM ERVIN, and adds the enticing puff: "How the chairman of the Watergate Committee was lured, not by a White House ploy but by his own ego, into buffoonery." The trivial incident merely involves Ervin being snookered by show-biz types into making à commercial recording of his-favorite quotations and anecdotes à la the late Senator Everett Dirksen. Whatever the wisdom of Ervin's performance, it hardly seems to rate the breathless treatment New Times gives...
This ditch was particularly useful. A heady runner (as heady as 12-year-old runners get) could pick his course over the ditch, and if he was very heady, maneuver his assailants into it. It was an effective ploy. And a devastatingly useful...