Word: stratagem
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...also been resourceful. We have consistently outguessed the enemy by giving him everything he wants. In this way we have been able to keep the leaders in Moscow perpetually off balance. Imagine their surprise and consternation when we turned China over to the Communists, and then, by a crafty stratagem, kept the Chinese Nationalists neutralized on Formosa while engaging these same Communists in armed combat. Small wonder they are baffled...
...magazine's preface, the Liberal Club editors said, "If progressive students, in defense of their own rights, must resort to a stratagem, let those who occasioned it suffer the odium..." The April, 1948, issue was the only one published by the Club, and there was no further agitation for lifting the official...
...battling the bad boys (Micky Sullivan's cohorts). But the good boys can't agree upon a plan of action, so they are thwarted at every turn. Eventually, just when it seems sure that the bad boys have won the day, they will be confused by some daring stratagem, and virtue will reign triumphant--maybe...
...Councilman Scherer had seriously hoped that his surprise stratagem would keep Republican Rich in office, he was badly mistaken. Charlie Taft set his jaw, scribbled a few notes, rose to his feet and said: "Turning one's back is neither a characteristic of my own nor, I hope, of the Charter Committee. ... It has been my conviction for some time that one detriment to my brother's candidacy is the total inadequacy of his home-town Republican organization in its contribution to good government. . . . What I may be able to do in these coming months at the city...
...inch cylinder in his navel. As he grew leaner & leaner, his "umbilical cavity" (as the report called it) became unsatisfactory as a hiding place, and he began hiding the precious cylinder in his "alimentary tract" (meaning, doubtless, his rectum). In other words, the No. 2 Nazi used a stratagem known to run-of-the-courthouse detectives the world over...