Word: strategem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this was not the whole reason. According to them, the new Faculty-members who had begun laying definite plans for the Program decided that passage of the resolution could be best assured by avoiding discussion of specifics. It would be very hard, of course, to prove that such a strategem was ever consciously planned and carried out; but this report typifies the atmosphere of intrigue--and suspicion of intrigue--in which the Program has so far grown...
...wide hall. When the "few minutes" dragged into two and a half hours the picture had changed considerably. I was no longer waiting alone in the vestibule. With me were no less than 17 other visitors, all more important than I. So I decided to try a desparate strategem. I entered the bedroom, closed the door behind me, and stalked into the inner chamber. "Fidel," I declared, in a voice that I hope sounded convincing, "my plane back to the states leaves in exactly one hour. (It actually was to leave the next morning.) May I have just five minutes...
...Matthen also offered Rameau's cantata Aquilon et Orithie, a trivial but melodious endorsement of rape as a lover's strategem...
...tackle football, Leverett extended its unbeaten string to six in edging Kirkland, 12-6, on Friday. The Deacons took the opening kickoff and ran their first play without a huddle. The strategem confused Leverett completely, and Kirkland went all the way for a touchdown...
Pivotal Holdout. On Wednesday, he came out of a legislative conference at the White House and promised to use "every possible means" to get a vote on EPT. Next day Martin prompted a meeting of the House Rules Committee. His drastic strategem was this: ignore Ways & Means prerogatives on revenue bills, let the Rules Committee consider a new EPT bill (one had just been conveniently dropped into the House hopper by Connecticut's Antoni Sadlak), and take the new bill directly to the floor for a vote. The course was risky, and failure would impair Joe Martin...