Word: trumped
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...eccentric old Dictator "could not conscientiously resign" until he had caused a new Parliament favorable to himself to be elected (TIME, Nov. 24) by the soldierly expedient of locking up Opposition candidates without bothering to trump up charges against them...
With at least the shadow of the Elysees falling athwart his broad, stooped shoulders M. Briand produced last week what he intends shall be his last great trump in the game of Diplomacy...
Unlike General Dawes M. Briand does not hold that an embassy is or should be "secondary"' in comparison with a chamber of commerce. He would deplore that a department of commerce should gradually outrank a state department. The trump M. Briand shook down his rumpled sleeve last week is a big red Ace of Diplomacy. But the stakes?a diplomat always plays for stakes?are Commerce...
...allow him to make such a confident statement on the outcome of the meet, it seems certain that Coach Farrell must have a few trump cards up his sleeve which he intends to spring on his opponents next Monday evening. Just what these may be is not known, but a guess that the hurdles, distance runs and 300-yd. dash might contain a few Crimson dark horses is probably not too far removed from the situation to be pertinent...