Leary repeated the double-play ploy in the fourth.
"These laws are all a public relations ploy playing to an anti-immigrant mentality," he said.
The ploy plays brilliantly on our preconceptions of funny foreigners but he didn't intend to be mean.
"This was a joke," Beverly Corbin, a longtime resident, said of the news conference, "and it was a political ploy played on the people of Wyckoff Gardens.
He dug extensively into his lead-guitar playing, his recent ploy to change his group sound, and he danced gingerly, with self-conscious awkwardness, like an eccentric grandfather doing his impression of Chuck Berry to entertain children.
It is true that Kennedy belonged to a relatively hawkish wing of the Democratic Party, and that Democratic leaders such as Adlai Stevenson, while also fiercely anti-communist, were less inclined to play on hysterical ploys such as the "missile gap" with the Soviets, which defence experts ultimately acknowledged did not exist.
Chain letters often tell you to "read" or "don't read" as a ploy, playing on your initial curiosity so if you read them, they'll eventually hit you with a bunch of baloney designed to push your panic button or use any other emotion you have against you for one purpose only: to get you spreading it further.
He called the effort "a cynical political ploy" to play to the Republicans' conservative Christian base.
When he appeared at an extradition hearing wearing an oxygen mask it was viewed as a ploy to play up phantom diseases.
Saudi Arabia's leader is worried that an absolute refusal to consider using oil as a bargaining ploy could play into the hands of Islamists, with dire consequences for the Saudi regime and other moderate governments in the Middle East.
He also took pains to explain that allowing inspectors in with no realistic chance they would disarm Iraq would only play into Baghdad's "ploy" to delay tougher measures.
