Word: ruse
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...SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY Nonswimming, battered wife Julia Roberts fakes her own death by drowning to escape her sadistic husband. Months later, the widower runs into a woman from Roberts' (secret) swimming lessons. He understands the ruse, tracks her down in her lovely, landlocked new life and tries to kill her. The moral? Swimming lessons = death...
...Ring Tricks. Jon wanted his proposal to be a surprise, so he had to invent a ruse to steal one of Jill's rings long enough to compare it to his pinky, then return it before she noticed. Since Jon, the perfect gentleman, had already asked Jill's family's permission for her hand in marriage, he was able to have Jill's grandmother's diamond reset in a new engagement ring for Jill...
...other members, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said the renovation excuse is merely a ruse to close the club to its undergraduate members until the end of the year...
Four months later, on Christmas Eve, the detectives repeated their stakeout, this time hiding a bug in a fake tombstone fashioned by a movie special-effects company. But the ruse failed when reporters and cameramen overran the site, and a youngster discovered the bogus marker, rocking it back and forth and loudly announcing, "This is made of wood...
...Northeast since I first came here from Texas four years ago. As a first-year, I loved Boston because it was a new experience. "More sleet!" I would yell. "More scrod! Wicked! Wicked! Wicked!" Sophomore year, I saw a downside--that accent was really not just an elaborate ruse. Now, in my senior year, I'm watching my friends take jobs in New York and Boston, and it seems these places are unavoidable on the path to success. Problem is, after three years I'm sick of the Northeast. I want to go back home, where the best thing...