Word: ruse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Indians win!" In the current saga, Davis plays a corporal in a cavalry unit assigned to haul a friendly Indian to a peace parley. Time: the early 1870s. The villains are Apaches, but Corporal Davis outfoxes them in the end by sacrificing his own life in a ruse to deliver the good Indian to the summit. Upshot: the bad Indians lose...
...Ruse for Life. For a photographer, this is a remarkable book in one respect: there is not a picture between the covers. It is a book of memories and responses-to men dying on a dozen fronts, to crushing defeat and stirring victory, to sights that stretch a man's capacity to endure with sanity, and to simple gestures of humanity under pressure that are reminders of what is noble in man. Mydans' first taste of war came on the Finnish-Russian front in 1940. It is typical of him that he does not rehash the politics...
...Mydans came shamefully back to the spot where he. had seen her. There she sat, a bowl of white rice by her side. Something stirred at her breast. Mydans looked. It was the child-alive and suckling with contented gurglings. "Then," writes Mydans, "I understood: in starving China any ruse is a fair one that adds a few more days to life...
...Ruse. The detectives pulled abreast of the Ford, waved the driver to the roadside. They greeted the Governor pleasantly, told him that they had been ordered to escort him to the capital. Long's driver got out of the Ford; Chief Detective Herman Thompson slid in behind the wheel and made for Baton Rouge. The disheveled Governor seemed delighted with the attention, spent the remainder of the trip trading small talk...
Richard Robinson publishes Chapter Five of his novel, a segment of which was widely appreciated by Advocate readers several months ago. This excerpt, titled "Afternoon in Formia," concerns a ruse devised by two rakes giro and Lorenzo, to acquire bank funds that do not belong to them, and also, a devilish trick that Giro plays on Lorenzo, in which the latter, in an effort to demonstrate that a person consumed by pity blinds himself to reality, receives, for his services, not the roses that he anticipates, but rather, an unfortunate pelting of old artichokes and rotting lettuce heads...