Word: stratagem
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...Whatever stratagem DuMont adopts, he will not resort to simple slaughter. The goony birds are protected by the Interior Department because-except at Midway-they are rare specimens of wildlife. And besides, as any mariner knows, it's bad luck to kill an albatross...
...freely with all who came offering food and genuine friendship, the monkeys would eat their bananas with relish, and then, with unerring aim and discernment, shy their skins at whatever furtive zoo keeper chanced to be lurking near by. At last, frustrated, the zoo men went to a base stratagem: they left a plate of rum-soaked food standing near, to tempt the refugees. One poor, pusillanimous monkey fell for the dodge, and as the keepers dragged him off drunk and disorderly in a sack, the other monkeys took to the trees and aired their disapproval in derisive jeers...
...Commander D. J. Giorgio and Lieut. J. G. Morrow, anesthesiologists at Bethesda Naval Medical Center, have worked out a stratagem for soothing young surgical patients. Their device: a plastic space-chief helmet with a tube to admit oxygen and cyclopropane gas. After the space chief fogs off, he gets ether like ordinary mortals...
Lyndon and Lady Bird campaigned on their $3,000 savings and $10,000 she borrowed on her property, and he succeeded Buchanan. He did it by the trick of campaigning on an all-out New Deal platform, including Franklin Roosevelt's Supreme Court packing plan. The stratagem got the nine other more conservative candidates to turn all their fire on Lyndon giving him all the publicity. F.D.R., fishing in the Gulf, heard about Johnson's campaign, took him back to Washington on the presidential train. That was the beginning of a long friendship, renewed and broadened over many...
...Hanoi the French High Command carefully analyzed the reports of the ex-prisoners. Was their release a gesture for peace? Or a new kind of Communist stratagem...