ruses

In his final mission, Mr. Bluestein said, the ruses devised by the roughly 360 soldiers of his battalion forced German commanders to spread their defenses thin in eastern France.

Nearly 80 years after World War Two, members of secretive US units are being honoured for the clever ruses they used to save tens of thousands of lives.

It was a military intervention unacknowledged by Moscow, shrouded in a fog of ruses and denials so improbable that few were deceived.

Baker is continually seeking ways of holding an audience captive without resorting to the normal ruses of conventional plotting.

Nearly two years later, the new policy, which prohibits police from conducting ruses in certain circumstances and requires documentation of all ruses, will take effect Wednesday.