ruses

The establishment of the State of Israel in 1948 provided ample ruses to claim Jews as a fifth column.

Malcolm is fluent in the ruses of modernist fiction (consider her profiles of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas in Two Lives).

When the mink reached the second thicket, his keen and experienced craft penetrated at once the poor ruses of the fugitive.

Any number of these ruses will occur to the minds of my readers, and I want to mention a few of them that we actually tried.

Ruses of war or stratagems are deceit employed during military operations for the purpose of misleading the enemy.

But in order to illustrate acts carried out as ruses some instances may be given.

But ruses of war are also employed, and are very often the decisive factor, during battles.