Word: ruse
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Louisville authorities have tried to crack down on domestics who collect welfare while working in homes. Because they are paid in cash and no records are kept, they are hard to catch. Their employers are happy to contribute to the ruse. Since the maids are partially subsidized by the government, they settle for low wages. Says Jefferson County Attorney Bruce Million: "The irony is that some of these wealthy people who hire the maids are always griping about how many people are on welfare...
...Instead of going to the mountains, or to East Pakistan, Kissinger was taken to the airport in Rawalpindi, seven miles from Islamabad. There he boarded a Pakistan International Airlines Boeing 707 for Peking. Given the circumstances, it was the best possible ruse. It is not hard to keep a secret in the rigidly controlled state of Pakistan. And even if they had been curious, it is doubtful whether the members of the plane crew would have known whom they were transporting. Kissinger could easily pass for just another British businessman. The fact that a Pakistan plane was taking...
Some Democratic Senators were so nettled by the President's secretiveness that they suspected that the whole agreement was merely a ruse to gain support for continued spending on ABM. Their rebellion is explained less by neo-isolationism than by their growing sense of impotence in foreign policy making (see TIME ESSAY). Nixon might have spared himself considerable trouble if he had let a few key Senators know what he was up to. Mansfield, for example, was rather vaguely informed only hours before the Senate vote...
...this necessary "anti-racist racism" does not become an end in itself, justifying a conservative totality. Rather, it opens up revolutionary perspectives. Because he is the most oppressed, he necessarily pursues-not only by a Hegelian ruse of reason-the liberation of all when he rises to enact his own deliverance from oppression. DuBois, Fanon: there is in them recognition that the revolt of the most oppressed constitutes inevitably and at the same time the embodiment and culmination of the revolt of all the oppressed for the abolition of relations of oppression and of racism. This is the source...
...NIXON'S horrid ruse has, for the moment, succeeded. Nearly a month after the bombing and armed incursion into North Vietnam, most of America remains quiet, convinced that these macabre acts are somehow connected with his professed concern for a few hundred prisoners...