Word: strategem
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...repairing some grave errors in his own strategy. When the miners' contract ran out nearly three months ago he had modified the traditional "no contract, no work" policy by ordering all his soft-coal miners east of the Mississippi on a three-day week. But that strategem had fizzled...
Coach John Chase came up with a strategem which almost brought about a Crimson tie or win. He started the second line of Huntington, Abbot, and Moseley against the Riley-Harrison-Riley Dartmouth powerhouse, because they were better on defense and limited that trio to but two goals. Unfortunately Desmond seemed to be at his best against the Crimson first line...
Last week's publication was "a protest against the refusal of the Board of Trustees to allow the Liberal Club to have its own magazine," the editors said. "If progressive students, in defense of their rights, must resort to a strategem," a preface to the magazine states, "let those who occasioned it suffer the odium...
...numerous sources from which this poisonous infection has spread would have to include the success of a policy of dissimulation by which one man has kept himself at the head of our government for twelve years. From the very beginning Mr. Roosevelt has used deception as a major political strategem, until today he has lost the moral confidence of the nation. Even in the ranks of those blocs which represent his followers his support rests, not upon their confidence in their integrity, but upon the cynical assurance that he will serve their interest...