Word: ployes
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...piece of New Deal legislation after another. When F.D.R. failed in his plan to pack the Court with pro-New Dealers in 1937, he did the next best thing: he named Senator Black to fill the vacancy left by retiring Justice Willis Van Devanter. It was a well-planned ploy: the Senate could hardly refuse to confirm...
...under considerable pressure from businessmen to yield to such commercial temptations. Says Berthold Beitz, Krupp's general manager: "We are excluding ourselves from this big market in the future unless we offer the same terms as our Western competitors do." And Russian trade commissars, knowing a good ploy when they see it, are hopping from capital to capital with a not-so-subtle threat: either extend long-term credit or no deal...
...Shot Us Down." Johnson's ploy surprised many and enraged others, especially those among the old Kennedy "Mafia" who had been pressing Bobby's case. "He shot us down," grumbled one of Bobby's friends angrily. Despite the anger, it is likely that Kennedy's friends will rally round the President soon again, for they have no place else to go. And they will probably accept the wisdom of the President's picking someone who approximates his own portrait of the ideal vice-presidential candidate...
...responded to her as to other ingenues they had known. If at the next moment she retorted quickly, they rejoiced at the sharp cliffie they saw in her. So with Gebow. If at one moment he seemed honestly disillusioned and at another to be using his cynicism as a ploy, it did not matter. As the boy and girl speak in such familiar language, the audience could adjust quickly to whatever sort of boy and girl Gebow and Miss Wilson seemed at any moment...
Inexperienced & Groggy. On the convention's eve, Scranton, still clinging to hope, conferred with Henry Cabot Lodge and Nelson Rockefeller, decided upon the desperate ploy of challenging Goldwater to a man-to-man debate before the assembled convention. Scranton ordered his top speechwriter, William Keisling, 28, to draft a letter to Barry demanding the confrontation. Then he went off to make a television appearance...