Word: stratagem
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...minister's door, held them incommunicado overnight, and next morning shipped them by government plane to Panama. Handed their passports in mid-air by the pilot, the U.R.D. leaders were dumped at Panama without money, a change of clothes or even their toothbrushes. Protesting this "fascist stratagem," Villalba bitterly refused to predict that U.R.D. assembly members left in Venezuela would dare stand up to Pérez Jiménez after such a show of force...
Because both sides have heard the complete series of exortations, everybody is fusions. The players are as angry at Williams as they are at their opponents, and they play with an aroused fury. Laughs come a bit later. In the meantime, the stratagem has had its desired effect...
...punch in the closing fortnight of a tight campaign. First came the dramatic announcement of a Korean Plan, vague enough to evade criticism but material enough to raise hopes. Then came the rabbit punch last Monday night. And while playing on the Korean war may be a defensible stratagem, Senator McCarthy's speech...
...this stratagem, the Communist authorities came into possession of a taxi with West-sector markings and plates, which would attract no attention anywhere in free Berlin. Shortly after the fake pounce on the "cigarette racketeer," the taxi recrossed into the U.S. sector and stopped on the Gerichtstrasse, a quiet, linden-shaded street in a shabbily genteel neighborhood. The hour was still early. Punctually at 7:20, Dr. Walter Linse, 48, economic expert and No. 2 man of the Investigating Committee of Free Jurists, emerged from No. 12 Gerichtstrasse, on his way to work, and started briskly toward the El station...
...sprint. Both first boats good starts, Tech staying even for about half a mile. Then the Crimson began to inch ahead, going through the Harvard bridge, the mile marker, the Crimson grabbed lead of almost a length. Tech tried to come back by using a big ten, but stratagem helped the Engineers scarcely at all. The smooth stroking varsity pulled out steadily for the remainder of the race...