Word: ruse
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...cunningly contrived a leak of false information that led the Turks to shift troops from Beersheba for the defense of Gaza. Where upon Allenby easily captured Beersheba, and with it a vast system of wells containing the water he required for a desert war. A similar but more elaborate ruse, involving 15,000 dummy horses and a secret concentration of 35,000 troops and 385 siege guns, set up what was probably the greatest Allied victory of World War I. The siege guns tore a gap in the Turkish lines, and through the gap Allenby hurled 9,000 horsemen...
...proposes, but his concerned young mistress wants to meet the wife and see if divorce will agree with her. Grudgingly, Bacall agrees to the role and the ruse. Nelson butters the lie by telling his bride-to-be that his wife has a boy friend whom she wishes to marry. This makes Vaccaro extravagantly solicitous: she must meet Bacall's supposed lover and see if he is a good sort. By the time the fictional couples are locked on a discotheque floor in the steely bonds of subterfuge, Cactus Flower is a prickly web of deceit. Inevitably, Bacall kicks...
They were. And so were the producers of last week's Emmy awards TV show for trying to pass off this performance as live music. In truth, Gary Lewis and the Playboys were pantomiming to a record. This is a convenient ruse known as "lip sync" (lip synchronization) and is used by virtually all rock 'n' rollers when they appear on TV. Records today are so beefed up by electronic gimmickry that most big-beat groups court disaster if they sing with their live voices unelectrified. Pity the poor Beatles. When they appeared on last week...
...last-ditch stand against a proposed eight-lane speedway that would cut their community in half. Running east-west alongside the town's main thoroughfare, it would link up other northern suburbs but do nothing for the town itself, seems to La Canadans little more than a ruse to collect $60 million in federal grants. The highway department claims that the projected-population figures for La Canada by 1980 necessitate the freeway. Planning Consultant Lyle Stewart retorts: "This area is built up with single-family units. The only way the population could increase is with multiple units...
...proposals for higher taxes, a state bank and land reform. The three moderately leftist parties resent Frei's plans because he has stolen their social-reform thunder. On the extreme fringes, the Communists and Socialists denounce everything, particularly the copper plan, which they rail at as a mere ruse to allow foreigners to exploit Chile's riches...