Word: stratagem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Next day Puerto Rican community leaders requested that all uniformed policemen be kept out of the area until the fever subsided, promising to do everything in their power to keep order. The police agreed, and the stratagem worked-for a while. Then a squad car squealed through the area in response to a burglar alarm, and the leaders' spell was broken; mayhem erupted for the second night. By midweek the police, now under the command of the department's chief troubleshooter, Captain James Holzman, were quick to disperse any sizable gathering. Miraculously, the reign of hate left only...
Irish Garrulity. It is not a book the way a rose is a rose. It is a book about a book about a man writing a book about characters who write a book about him. Under cover of this preposterous stratagem, O'Brien parodies, satirizes and otherwise spoofs a number of Irish social and literary conventions. Among them: the realistic novel, the bardic gigantism of Celtic literature, the circumlocutions of Irish journalism, the Irish anecdote, Irish prudery, and, in its wonderfully garrulous way, Irish garrulity itself...
...Celtics usually win the N.B.A. championship by the simple stratagem of walloping the sneakers off everyone in sight. Not this year. The Celtics had to scramble for a 54-26 regular season record and second place behind the Philadelphia 76ers. They then had to beat third-place Cincinnati and the first-place 76ers in the Eastern Division play-offs for the right to meet the Western Division's Los Angeles Lakers in the N.B.A. finals...
...gabel-schwanz Teufel"-"the fork-tailed devil." Making Hudsons for the British before the U.S. entered World War II, Lockheed ran into the U.S. Neutrality Act, which forbade either U.S. or British citizens to ship or fly the planes from the U.S. to Britain. Court Gross helped devise a stratagem. Lockheed bought a wheat farm on the North Dakota-Canada border, flew its bombers there from the Burbank assembly line, hitched them to teams of horses. The horses, supposedly not subject to the laws of man, drew the planes across the boundary. Canadians unhitched the animals, let British pilots ferry...
Jesus, sensing Judas' cupidity, chose him as the instrument of betrayal in order to fulfill the prophecy of Psalms: "Mine own familiar friend in whom I trusted . . . hath lifted up his heel against me." Jesus' "stratagem," says Schonfield, was "designed to pile on the pressure at the crucial moment and induce the traitor to act." When Mary washed his feet with precious ointment, Jesus let "fall the words about his body being anointed for burial." Like "an inspiration it came to" Judas "that money was to be made by doing what Jesus plainly wanted. The tempter came...