Word: tactic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...member of the first American group of B-26s to go into combat against the Germans and Italians. This took place in North Africa soon after the invasion. We learned the hard way, trying first one tactic and then another, until we found the way to use them best...
Whether or not the new status of the Russian Orthodox Church was permanent (and there were many signs that it was), as a tactic of the Soviet Government the change was still big enough with political consequences to be a landmark in the history of Russia and of Europe, and therefore of the world...
Among those the Tribune rapped: Arkansas's Representative J. W. Fulbright, whose plan for postwar international cooperation gives Tribune Publisher McCormick ideological chills & fever; OWI's Elmer Davis, whom the Tribune accused of having majored in the "tactic of vilification" while at Oxford; OONR (a Tribune tag meaning "Old Oxonians Not Rhodes Scholars") Marshall Field III (Eton and Cambridge), editor of the Tribune-rivaling Chicago Sun; OONR Henry R. Luce (Hotchkiss, Yale and Oxford), editor of TIME...
...vice" is that he loves to gamble - on golf (which he plays in the 80s), on bridge (which he plays even better), on poker, on almost anything. His favorite tactic is to double his bets until he wins...
...their total strength in fighter planes. They have stripped the Russian front to a thin cover of fighters, almost denuded the Mediterranean front. All their new fighter production is being sent to the west, and with it their best pilots. They are using every known tactic of air warfare and many new ones to break up the formations of big Allied bombers raiding Germany by day and by night. They have bombed them from the air, have devised planes to carry rocket guns. They are ' massing their fighters in formation to obtain a concentration of fire and lately have...