Word: ruse
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...Japanese were resourceful warriors. On the island of New Georgia, they cleared palm trees for an airstrip but left the tops suspended on wires. Beneath this camouflage, the field was completed before U.S. reconnaissance photos could detect the ruse. In 1941-42 the Japanese had island-hopping plans of their own. From their major base at Rabaul, just off New Guinea, they moved to Buka and Bougainville-the most northerly of the Solomons. From there, they established bases southward on other islands, including Guadalcanal...
...ruse of a choice...
Fernandes, the socialist leader whom Gandhi has yet to release from prison, sees the election as a ruse designed to generate favorable propaganda in the West. From prison last week he castigated the Janata Party and other opposition leaders for participating in "the sham election." Even through the thick prison walls, Fernandes' message came across loud and clear: participation in the March elections, so long as emergency rule remained in effect, would serve only to legitimize the Gandhi regime, a legitimization it most certainly does not deserve...
...create a diversion to facilitate my escape from the Honeymoon Hotel. I was desperate. Thousands of question marks, tiny little things, filled out into a cloud over my head. The cloud grew darker and darker until it produced a rumble and then a flash. I had it! A clever ruse to get her out of the room while I practiced my six-story leap into a waiting convertible. In a few short hours I'd be home, where my only thoughts of sex came when my mother boiled zucchini...
...written 18 years ago by Hugh Pentecost, The Day the Children Vanished. Pentecost's tale describes the disappearance of a station wagon full of pupils. In his story, kidnapers load the wagon onto a large truck and take the children to a remote barn. The abduction is a ruse to draw people away from the local bank...