Word: ployes
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...McGovern staff last year that he was working on a campaign book. While feeding information to the Republicans, he was really trying to gather material for an "inside" book about internal friction in the G.O.P. camp. He sees no distinction between what he did and the ploy used by Joe McGinniss in 1968. McGinniss worked as a Republican campaign staffer while secretly doing research for The Selling of the President 1968, a tough and witty attack on Richard Nixon and some of his aides. "If I had brought it off," Freidin says ruefully, "everyone would be calling...
...members alike try to help each member analyze, and change, his "life script" -the blueprint that, according to T.A., a child unconsciously draws up to shape his whole life. Bad scripts may include self-defeating "games" such as "Kick Me," a gambit of the self-pitying, and "Blemish," the ploy of people who compensate for inferiority feelings by pointing out the failings of others...
Still, Robert Kennedy sometimes freed himself from the manipulators. At one point in the middle sixties, he blurted out that the United States should send blood to the National Liberation Front, hardly a cagey political ploy. In the years before his 1968 bid for the Presidency, he traveled often to southern California, to help his friend Cesar Chavez and the United Farmworkers Union, working quietly in the days before the television cameras followed him everywhere...
Lagging in the polls in the final week, Yorty tried to repeat his 1969 ploy of scaring voters away from Bradley because of the color of his skin. This time Bradley was much less vulnerable...
Sometimes the thieves will even approach a farmer and offer to cut his deadwood. Then, says Craig Beek, head of Iowa's Bureau of Criminal Investigation, "Zippo, like a flash, they'll take your walnut trees too." Another ploy is to approach the landowner and ask to buy the trees, promising payment when they are sold to mills. The cutters then disappear with the logs, and the farmer never sees them again...