Word: ruse
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...scene expected this one to yield, as others had. They expected an early peace; they could feel it in the air and in their bones. Another school of thought holds that the Communists never intend to reach final agreement, that they are using the truce conferences as a ruse to protect their buildup for a crushing offensive, just as the Chinese Reds, while fighting the Nationalists in the civil war, had made treacherous use of truces to gather strength for the next attack. The pessimists point to the Red buildup which is still going on. The optimists in high places...
...knocks. "We're missing a child, sir. A little girl." Mumbles Divine: "I saw something, but not a child, naturally. It was a scarf." The lie starts pounding in his skull, but when he finally blurts out the truth to the grieving mother, she treats it as a ruse to stop her harried search. By the time Author Steele has applied the last turn of the screw to Divine's conscience, the poor fellow is babbling insanely from a hospital...
...recruit performers for an Army Air Force show, On the Beam. In spite of his rare protective talents as a chowhound and goldbrick, Lanza's throat was so raw with Texas dust that he could not sing. Silver, who was already selected for the show, devised a ruse: he put Lanza's name on a label and pasted it on a homemade recording (taken from a radio broadcast) of the Met's Tenor Frederick Jagel singing a Tosca aria. Impressed, Hayes took Mario on. Later, when Lanza could sing the aria himself, Hayes marveled...
There's only one thing traditionally absent from Tree Day: the Sophomore banner. Anytime earlier in the year, freshmen use any ruse they can to steal the banner, including John Harvard's dressed as girls who sneak into the banner cache. The sophomores get thir banner back, though after the ceremonies...
...McCarthy, a new publication called "The Freeman" is pasting the Communist label on everyone in sight. The writers of this magazine, which is described elsewhere on this page, have discovered the old trick of associating groups they personally dislike with something the public doesn't like. McCarthy used this ruse for political gains; "The Freeman" uses it to disguise a worn out policy of retreatism...