Word: ruse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tails, greeted the guests, then announced: "We have one big surprise for you. You're all under arrest." The stunned revelers were handcuffed, then jailed, the latest victims of a series of stings FIST has used to catch crooks from scofflaws to hardened felons. Yield from the Redskins ruse: 37 fugitives sought for parole and probation violations, and 61 others wanted for such offenses as armed robbery, narcotics violations and embezzlement...
...landlord is such a grouch. Gibbs' hangdog cynicism is funny, and the writers have a good ear for dialogue. In one scene Mary's 14-year-old daughter tries to sweet-talk Mom into letting her and a friend go to the movies. Mary figures out the ruse and turns them down. "Told you it wouldn't work," says the daughter as they stalk out of the room. Snaps the friend: "Well, you set it up wrong." TV's First Father himself, Bill Cosby, might admire the family insights displayed in the season's best new sitcom...
...Fifteen minutes later, after the journalists promised to maintain calm, the session was resumed. In another incident, a Lebanese Shi'ite driver working for Newsweek reached the plane by passing himself off as a relative of the hijackers'. As the driver returned to the terminal, Amal militiamen discovered the ruse and angrily fired bullets over the heads of about 40 journalists...
...minimum tax offends the tax-reform purists, who argue that it would leave the tax code just as complex and contorted, although perhaps a bit less egregiously unfair. "The weeds would be topped," says Rostenkowski, "but the roots would remain." Indeed, some see a minimum tax as a cynical ruse to avoid real tax reform. "Want to see a specialinterest lobbyist grin over his three-martini lunch?" scoffs a report released last week by the House Republican Conference. "Threaten him with a corporate minimum...
...make matters worse, Swaby and company have also discovered Gilbert's ruse and are threatening to prosecute him. This leads to a conformation over Betty's late in which Joyce and Swaby team up against Gilbert and Allardyee, the latter of whom looks so much lick the aforementioned swine that his sympathy seems entirely logical. His wife and enemy win out, and Gilbert is forced to go to Swaby's party, where the nasty doctor seduces his wife and cats...