Word: strategem
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...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...
...strategem did not work--if in fact it was ever seriously considered. The House passed the McCarthy-Dorgan education bill, with slight changes. The revised version cut out "Communist or Communist sympathizer," substituting "any professor seeking the overthrow of the government." College presidents were made personally responsible--colleges would not lose their charters...