Word: ployes
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...eager to score on the inside, instead of scouring the outside, of the Mies van der Rohe palace that houses the World Wide Wickets Co. Finch enters the mail room armed with apple-cheeked guile and a handbook to success that makes him the greatest ploy-boy in the history of officemanship...
...write novels any more; they write major novels. The phrase, once the reviewer's last cymbal crash before his closing chord of adjectives, has become a generic tag, like "short story" and "hot dog." Thus cold frankfurters are cold hot dogs, not cold dogs. Accepting the publishers' ploy, critics must now confront a new literary phenomenon: the insignificant major novel...
After winnowing the prospects down to half a dozen or so, the recruiter makes his move. Often it is a telephone call to the executive at. his home. The ploy: asking help in finding for a top job in an unnamed company a man whose experience just happens to parallel the executive's own. The reply is often right on the button: "Why. I could handle that job myself." With that opening, the recruiter interviews the prospect at length, conducts a detailed background check, sometimes with the help of a detective agency, and occasionally runs the prospect through batteries...
...bill was the mildest of measures. Left out altogether was the controversial aid for teachers' salaries. To sweeten an allotment of $325 million for school construction, congressional leaders passed the word that the funds could also be used to pay off debts for past construction-a ploy calculated to charm Congressmen from the South, which has had a wave of classroom construction...
With Pakistani troops still holding part of Kashmir, Nehru roared, "there can be no question of a plebiscite. Talk of a plebiscite has now become a joke." Furthermore, he said, Kashmir was just a Pakistani ploy to divert attention from its failure to improve the lot of its people: "Even if there were no Kashmir question, Pakistan would create some other issue to keep this hate campaign against India going...