Word: stratagem
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Into the breach stepped Vermont's Republican Senator Warren R. Austin. While Stettinius & Co. were gasping for air, smart Warren Austin announced that he could not read the Spanish text of the resolution, made delay a point of Latin courtesy. This stratagem gave him and Texas' Tom Connally, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, time to work out a compromise...
...football professors had been dead wrong, and humanly slow to admit it. Four years ago, coaches labeled the T formation a precarious stratagem suitable only for such star performers as Quarterback Sid Luckman of the Chicago Bears and Fullback Norm Standlee of Stanford. Without such power and polish, said the coaches, the T formation wouldn't work...
...serried, airless bedrooms. A dozen garlanded chinaware cuspidors clustered beside a bundle of lace curtains. Metal Indians and painted washstands stood on the vast drawing-room floor, while a gleeful Saratoga schoolboy banged at a bandy-legged grand piano. Love's Tribute and Love's Stratagem leaned in steel engraving against a parlor wall. There were objects nobody could explain, such as a waisthigh, samovar-like receptacle of tarnished silverplate sporting an impudent spiggot. There were even sales tickets on the coiled hempen ropes down which no one had ever had to make a fire escape...
...Army's Stavka (Supreme Command) this was a signal to turn to a well-tested stratagem: dispersed punching. German reserves had been shifted from above Vatutin's sectors north to south to succor Manstein. It was time to punch the weakened fronts...
...President attacked the rail strike situation first. The Administration's problem: to find a way around the Little Steel formula by some kind of a "free dishes" side-offer, similar to John L. Lewis' portal-to-portal stratagem. The 350,000 men in the five strike-threatening big brotherhoods, the 1,100,000 men in the equally dissatisfied 15 nonoperating brotherhoods, watched the White House closely. So did the 135 million U.S. citizens who depend on the rails. As the week began, Franklin Roosevelt made the national sentiment clear: a railroad strike is unthinkable...