Word: ruse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lack of progress is partly the result of foot-dragging on the part of Nicaragua. Indeed, Washington argues that its covert support for the contras is one of the few sources of leverage on the Sandinistas to cooperate in Contadora. One State Department official says that only a diplomatic ruse got the Sandinistas to agree to discuss Contadora's 20 goals. By his account, the Nicaraguans for several months sought to avoid sessions with the other Central American nations before agreeing to join a ceremonial dinner. Once the Nicaraguans were seated, the impasse was broken, and they found themselves...
...ruse was the idea of Star Managing Editor William Coughlin, 61, a former Los Angeles Times Beirut bureau chief. After the Oct. 23 truck-bomb attack...
Though critical not only of the system of production of films but of the film medium itself, Shepard admitts that he would consider filming one of his plays, "Buried Child." Movies are "a kind of a ruse--an art ruse," Shepard says. "I don't feel like they have any real power to get inside, like theatre...
...when a U.S. officer began a loud countdown, threatening to open fire on the building, did the two emerge and were taken into custody. Austin was holed up in a palatial coastal resort that once was a haven for the island's leading capitalists. He fell for a ruse by Grenadian intelligence agents who pretended to accept his offered bribe of $2,000 to take him by boat to the neighboring island of Carriacou or $3,500 to get him to Marxistdominated Guyana. Instead, they set him up for easy capture by Army paratroopers. The U.S. held...
Albin too eventually gives in. When Jean-Michel's mother fails to show, he puts on his dress and plays Mamma himself. Though his ruse is discovered, the show ends happily, of course, with the girl's parents in retreat, Jean-Michel accepting Georges and Albin for what they are, and the two lovers-Georges and Albin, that is-walking arm in arm offstage...