Word: ruses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many Congressmen object to Moakley's bill because they feel it is a "Democratic ruse to have the people go to the polls when the Republican party is at its lowest point," he said...
...mindless and abusive rhetoric of their pamphlet manifests some of the most insidious tactics of demogoguery: they use the Shockley position as a jumping off place for uneducated polemic on IQ tests, presenting ethnic groups as victims of IQ test discrimination. This is a blatantly politick ruse to gain the sympathy of the reader through his ethnic loyalties...
...long before the fish appear-at least when he is not too drunk to speak. One day he offers Skelton his bookings; he has killed another man, he claims, and will soon be in prison. When the younger man finds out that all this is only a casual redneck ruse, he sets fire to Dance's skiff. There is only one riposte to that act of war: Dance promises Skelton a speedy death if he ever tries to guide in the Keys. Skelton orders himself a skiff...
...team that everybody rubberstamped "dynasty" after the landslide win in last year's title game looks like it's coming apart at the seams. Whittier -- who didn't seem to age at all in his first four seasons -- is beginning to feel the wear and tear of the constant ruse and deception of winning football. The question you hear today is "Can the old boy do the job any more -- is he a big enough man for it?" Ever since that big victory in 1972 (and there were signs of it even before that) USU has shown signs of faltering...
...composer godson (David Dukes) is engaged to a tempestuous prima donna (Elizabeth Owens). Late one night godfather and godson overhear the lady, through paper-thin walls, in a vocal and vigorous session of lovemaking with an actor (Neil Flanagan). While the godson threatens suicide, the godfather hits on a ruse. The guilty lovers, he will pre tend, had actually been rehearsing a play - which has still to be written...