Word: ruse
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...imagined more and more eyes looking at me, demanding answers." Realizing that he would be stripped of his prized Red Guard armband if he failed to take part in the assault, he constructed a rationale to justify joining the brutality. His teacher's past devotion had been but a ruse to tar him as a fellow counterrevolutionary, he reasoned. He convinced himself that the manner in which the old man fell to his knees proved that he was guilty...
...ground, the rhetoric of peace counts for nothing. Few Israelis believe that the vast distance traveled by Yasser Arafat toward a credible negotiating position is anything but a ruse. The P.L.O.'s apparent readiness to bless a peace initiative whose salient points are at best ambiguous is dismissed as derisively as its earlier recognition of Israel's right to exist. The majority of Israeli Jews scorn as naive the possibility that the Palestinians may finally have decided to "settle" for something short of everything. How could they?, asks Yitzhak Shamir; the central problem has never changed: "We think the land...
...gave up everything," said Kitty Oakes, the woman Tipton claimed was his wife for 19 years. "There were certain rules and regulations in those days if you were going to be a musician." Musicians who played with Tipton would remark on his youthful appearance, but never suspected his ruse. "Mentally he was a father," said one son, Scott Miller. "He was always there...
...self-definition, Bush in the fall campaign relied on angry scripts, as he launched a fusillade of demeaning attacks against the hapless Michael Dukakis. Was this red-meat rhetoric reflective of the real George Bush? On election night, Bush offered the broad hint that it was all a ruse. "When I said I want a kinder, gentler nation," he declared, "I meant it. And I mean...
...supposed wedding on Oct. 9, in which both bride and groom were undercover Customs agents, was an elaborate ruse designed to lure the jet- setting bankers back into U.S. jurisdiction from other countries. Within 72 hours after the Tampa trap was sprung, American and British customs agents arrested 40 bankers and narcotics traffickers in London and several U.S. cities on money laundering and other charges...