Word: ruse
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...cruel ruse, the CIA's team of writers resorted even to such time-worn tricks as the formless plot, the dialect joke, and the late-President slur. But again the audience refused to see its vision dashed, and the intelligence men's most basic weapon--mimic ability--carried the show. On top of which, the CIA as usual was technically flawless. The set it put together, even forgetting the incredibly short notice it had for last night's performance, was remarkable. So were the uniformly clever and colorful costumes. This being a commedia dell'arte with updated themes and references...
...would have to sound like a segregationist in public in order to pick up the white conservative vote that he needed, along with Negro support, to win. Realizing that this was the only course that would win Winter white votes, Evers and his lieutenants went along with the ruse. Evers even advised a Winter aide on election...
Ridiculous Ruse. This time, Voznesensky is sore at the Union of Writers, the party's all-powerful cultural arm that oversees literary activities in the Soviet Union. It was bad enough that the union turned thumbs down on the invitation he had received to give a poetry reading at the Lincoln Center Summer Festival in Manhattan last June, but the style of the denial, he said, was insufferable. It was not until four days before his departure that the union told him the trip was "inadvisable"-presumably because someone had belatedly remembered the rhapsodic verse he wrote about...
...ridiculous ruse moved the poet to write to Pravda on the day after he had been scheduled to appear in New York: "Why do they pull the wool over everyone's eyes by saying variously that I am ill, that I waited until it was too late before I asked for a ticket, or (now that everyone knows that it's too late to get to the poetry reading) that I'm just about to leave? Of course, the leaders of the Union of Writers must know what they are doing, but why haven't they...
...overexcited by Soviet technical achievements, the magazine supports the establishment of an anti-ballistic missile system. An Air Force intelligence officer in World War II, later public relations director of United Aircraft, Hotz is a superhawk to the point of suggesting that the Sino-Soviet split may be a ruse to lull the U.S. into a false sense of security...