Word: ruses
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...bringing him to work bright and shining. They hired men to tail him nightly, bet him $100 he wouldn't be in shape to work the next day. Never a loose man with a dollar, the comedian couldn't refuse the tempting increment. For a while the ruse worked. But when he returned from a European trip with his wife a few years later, there was no work for him in Hollywood. That was old stuff to Trooper Oakie...
...refuse, however, or become obtuse with muttered phews! or by some simple ruse upset the cruse, in the end I lose...
...form of war without battles, this war of uncertainty, of constantly re-newed anxiety and broken hopes, but our determination has not weakened and will not weaken. ... If between peace and war they think to wear us out, we shall hold out as long as necessary. Neither force nor ruse can avail against France. We have taken what military measures we consider necessary. We are not thinking of reducing but rather of increasing them. . . . Whatever may be the diversity and complexity of international problems, there is in reality only one issue in Europe today-thatof domination or collaboration. . . . We know...
...Some sea cucumbers, when attacked, eject their viscera as a tempting distraction. If the ruse is successful and they escape, they can easily regenerate new insides...
They carved wooden spikes, painted them iron-color, inserted them in place of the removed ones. The light Japanese trains crossed the rails without causing them to spread, but when the heavy munition cars came along the wooden spikes broke, spilled the cars on the trackside. This ruse has derailed over 30 trains south of Peiping in the last three months...