Word: ruse
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...official complaints that their son Gregory's tree house is too close to the street. When another parent, William Sypher, received a notice for building without a permit, his two sons tacked a sign "Bird Feeding Station" on the house and nailed on feed pans-but the ruse failed and the notices kept coming...
...distaste for force in the Confucian order is profound, one indication being the low social status of the soldier. Men who know how to employ ruse, the traditional weapon of the weak against the strong, are particularly admired. A famous Chinese story describes how a poet wrote a novel considered dangerous by the Emperor and was summoned to court to be punished; he bribed the boatman to travel as slowly as possible, and by the time he arrived, he had written a new novel so fantastic that the Emperor decided he must be insane and spared his life. To many...
Shaw was hanging in tight with two Princeton runners at the beginning of the race. Then he made his move, a clever ruse that convinced the Tigers that he was in fine shape. He opened up a big lead, and the Princeton runners, thinking they had no chance to catch him, let Shaw glide home...
...fast. He ordered a detail of 60 marines to cut Yeu's still advancing column in half by stalling a big truck on a bridge behind Yeu's forward command post, then claiming that the truck had broken down. When the Vietnamese troops caught on to the ruse, their commander demanded passage, declaring, "I am a brave man." Replied U.S. Marine Captain Carl Wreckwell: "I'm not saying you're not brave. It's just that I'll destroy you and your guns if you fire." The commander stormed back to his howitzers, ordered...
...lucky to have five days before the press finds you." Actually, The Netherlands' newlyweds had a little more time than that, partly because they were lucky enough to arrange for U.S. Air Force transports to whisk them from Europe to the Mexican border-a press-dodging ruse for which they paid the U.S. $2 more than two first-class commercial fares. Then, after eight days' honeymoon-hiding from reporters, The Netherlands' Crown Princess Beatrix, 28, and her German bridegroom, Clous von Amsberg, 39, were at last chased down by a crowd of photographers as they arrived...