Word: fabius
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fabius who gave his name-and tactics-to the British Socialists who were committed to change by evolution rather than revolution...
...that seemed to be moving slower than the traffic last week was the peace parley on Viet Nam. U.S. and North Vietnamese negotiators held a single 2-hr. 57-min. session at the Hotel Majestic, then adjourned for four days. Hanoi was clearly bent on emulating the tactics of Fabius Cunctator (the delayer),* the Roman general who wore down the more powerful Hannibal by his endless harassing tactics. The long break was occasioned in part, a Hanoi spokesman explained, by the fact that Ascension Day was approaching, "and since we translate 'ascension' as 'escalation' in Vietnamese...
...Paul Jones ("boldness, not caution, wins") to Sherman and Patton. Yet in every war they have fought, Americans have also shown great patience, which of course is a form of courage. For all their dash, U.S. generals appreciate slow, painstaking preparation and careful strategy in the tradition of Quintus Fabius Maximus Cunctator ("The Delayer"). After Pearl Harbor, when Admiral Chester Nimitz was rebuilding the US. Navy, he invariably fended off action-hungry critics with the Hawaiian phrase Hoomana wa nui (Be patient...