Word: tactic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this desperate tactic of hoarding planes the Nazis have succeeded in holding together a fighter force that will still be formidable. But it is almost certainly a hollow-shell force...
...boys, who would otherwise have been soundly beaten in the corridor ... be granted a full pardon. Seeing that he had scored his point, he went full out and asked that the whole college be excused from classes for the rest of the day. It was a lead-pipe tactic. The Boss groaned once in his beard and surrendered...
...Tactic. This new German plan of campaign has been accompanied by a new German air raid warning system called the Drahtfunk, which has apparently been set up to bolster civilian morale. The Drahtfunk provides constant radio reports of the progress of air raids and allays anxiety in other districts by reporting those which are in danger...
...could break through? And if the cannon, besides spreading their fire over an area, could hit small, individual targets one after another, what system of defenses could survive? Thus, out of the body of Russian tradition, out of the mass of ideas, doubts and speculations, emerged Voronov's tactic of Massed Fire & Individual Targets...
...only to Willkie supporters, but to many lukewarm Deweyites, this tactic now seemed a confession that Dewey really wants the nomination but is afraid his chances will be hurt by a Wisconsin licking...