Word: ruse
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...needed is are form of arbitration machinery combined with more effective laws against unauthorized strikes. Appointments to mediation boards and labor law enforcement agencies should be non-political, a requirement that Truman has sometimes ignored. Amendments to the existing labor legislation should cover such loopholes as the "sickness' ruse. And unions denied the right to strike must be assured that management will also be curbed from taking advantage of labor's inability to use its most effective weapon...
...fact that the good lady has lopped five years off her age in order to capture him. This simple subterfuge, in turn, would pass safely, but for the fact that she has had to reduce reduce her son's age by five years, too, in order to maintain the ruse...
Anxioulsy, McGhie rushed down to the Boston Capital. Clerks apparently played along with the ruse, and the freshman ran in turn to the offices of the National Guard, Public Lands, after calling newspapers and radio stations, McGhie tried the Chelsea fire department...
...play tells of a Swedish cavalry captain whose ruthless wife-in a deep sexual struggle for domination-malignly and methodically drives him insane. Her final ruse is to obsess him with the idea that he is not the father of their child. Strindberg is himself obsessed here, seeing all villainy in the world's wives, as the mad Lear saw it in the world's daughters. But if an unbalanced man, Strindberg was a far from impotent artist: he punctuated the play with flashes of insight and jabs of feeling...
...President believed that the U.S. could wean the Soviet Union "away from dictatorship and tyranny in the direction of a free, tolerant, and peaceful society." At best it was a naive hope for a man come to trade with a proved champion of Lenin's precept: "Use any ruse, cunning, unlawful method, evasion, concealment of truth...