Word: stratagems
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...discussion of the barrier by military men to stop any seepage of information valuable to the enemy. Although he promised to keep Congress up to date, American taxpayers may never know the cost ($1 billion over two years, according to one estimate) or the effectiveness of McNamara's stratagem...
Plainly, many Negroes could not take Winter's racist rhetoric-or were simply confused by the stratagem worked out by Evers and the other Negro leaders. Many even voted for Williams, or did not vote at all. Only about 100,000 of the state's 194,000 registered Negroes cast their ballots-a surprising drop from the August primary, when about 70% voted...
...harness had cut my shoulders and rib cage to ribbons, and I was covered with blood." At least he doesn't have to live with the experience of New York Attorney Frank Bramm, who connected off Montauk. Bramm battled the fish for two hours, skillfully thwarting his every stratagem. At last he maneuvered him to within 10 ft. of the boat. Leader up! Ready to gaff! At that point, Bramm was so excited that the cigar tumbled from his teeth and-Poing!-burned through the fiddletaut line...
Next day Puerto Rican community leaders requested that all uniformed policemen be kept out of the area until the fever subsided, promising to do everything in their power to keep order. The police agreed, and the stratagem worked-for a while. Then a squad car squealed through the area in response to a burglar alarm, and the leaders' spell was broken; mayhem erupted for the second night. By midweek the police, now under the command of the department's chief troubleshooter, Captain James Holzman, were quick to disperse any sizable gathering. Miraculously, the reign of hate left only...
Irish Garrulity. It is not a book the way a rose is a rose. It is a book about a book about a man writing a book about characters who write a book about him. Under cover of this preposterous stratagem, O'Brien parodies, satirizes and otherwise spoofs a number of Irish social and literary conventions. Among them: the realistic novel, the bardic gigantism of Celtic literature, the circumlocutions of Irish journalism, the Irish anecdote, Irish prudery, and, in its wonderfully garrulous way, Irish garrulity itself...