European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 31, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page in column the stars stripes monday August 31.1987 today s crossword diplomats Good old ploys by William Sofike the hottest word in diplomatic parlance it ploy. When president Reagan speaker of the House Jim Wright issued their Short lived peace plan for Central America doves in the United Stales promptly dubbed in a Mere ploy to help Speed to the control when the sandinista turned in Down. A reporter asked Secre tary of state George p. Shultz is n a plot replied Shutlz in a verbal snippet thai made a Nice sound bite on All the news shows it s not just a ploy it s a serious soon afterwards when Central american presidents put their own plan Forward Hawki in Washington characterized nicaraguan president Daniel or Tega Saavedra s Quick rhetorical acceptance of that As a Piny of his own. Obviously student of diplomacy have a major accusatory word to contend with. What is the slate of play on Plo a sir Charles James Napier whose latin coded Pecca i informed i colleagues in London that i have sind in India used the word in 1841 to describe a military Drill Man Euver that formed a column out of a line perhaps Back forming the word from deploy they acquire the Art of playing deploying their before that ploy was being used As an informal that s where it picked up a roguish Quality a Pursuit that Young Rakea would adopt to amuse themselves or to outwit or disconcert other. In the United states this useful old term still curiously considered informal by Many lexicographers Means trick Sty action mild deceit in its pejorative sense Man Euver gambit in a More admiring sense be careful with the synonym gambit which i in its figurative sense a ploy a ploy is not always a gambit. That s because the essence of gambit is opening be in chess the term denotes the purposeful sacrifice of a Pawn or other piece at the Hart of a gamete gain an advantage its meaning has been extended in the real world to an opening move to gain an Adan Tage,1 keeping he opening connotation White losing the sacrifice. An opening gambit is redundant Don t use in or the squad squad will get you. Supporters of More accurately believers in it. Col. Oliver l. North hold thai in his Case the Noble cause of the Freedom fighters in Central America provide the Good end Hal justified his use of tawdry Means such As tying to Congress shredding documents. At the risk of drawing the attention of a special prosecutor writes Jim Newton formerly of la new York times foreign desk i d like to Call attention to the origins of the phrase the end justifies the Means which the Iran Contra investigative committee appeared eager to attribute to Karl i recalled the often quoted use of the phrase by Thomas Jefferson after he slipped around Congress the Constitution to acquire the vast Louisiana territory. To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to written Law said the nation s third president would be to lose the Law itself. Thus absurdly Sacri Ficini the end to the but Newton tracked end is Means to a translation of the 48th letter of St. Jerome written circa . 400. The line often adopted by Strong men in controversy of justifying the Means by the end wrote St. Jerome the Church father who translated the Bible from hebrew greek manuscripts into latin Leoti that formed the basis of the vulgate. However eager Correct the congressmen must be to cast colonel North As adopting the methods of the marxist enemy " concludes my recent colleague now a the Allan Constitution surely they did t have St. Jerome in or Sophocles either in Electra written circa 409 b c., the greek playwright used word that translate into English As the end excuses any bad philosophy but certainly t or Vocative thought it now not however hive the specific end Means juxtaposition so until a lexicographic irregular come up with an ear Lier citation St. Jerome gets the credit. Charles Andrew have married two attractive charming women frowned an editorialist in the sunday times of London after stones appeared about High Ink among Young members of the Royal the Sloane Ranger aspect in them often overwhelms the More decorous behaviour that Royal rank should dictate the result i not always in quoting that passage in a piece of my own i defined Sloane rangers As swinging single women who frequent the area of London s so Lane the location was right but the limitation to women was wrong the Slang adjective swinging with its a resell connotation of Moose morals was a unfair slur on the residents of that area. Can their be a " air slur or Are All slurs inherently unfair i think some slurs or aspersions Are fair reproaches this was unfair because it was inaccurate a Sloane Ranger a rhyming play on the american radio hero the Lone Ranger whose sidekick Tonto referred to him As Kemo Sabe is a member of Brit Ain s Young moneyed elite. The term s originator Peter York often described As a pop anthropologist first used the term in a 1975 harpers Queen article the Sloane rangers. Are the nicest British girl. The Sloane rangers always tone. They a ctr put on Prole York was quoted by Newsweek in n 1985 piece about the daring doings of the Young royals Diana was pure Szalc of the Art Sloane. 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