Word: tactical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Faced with a showdown, the Social Democratic leaders decided on an unusual tactic. Fearing defections from their own ranks, they ordered their Deputies to refrain from voting. Thus anyone who approached the voting urn from the Social Democratic benches would be presumed to be a traitor to his party. However, Vice Chancellor...
...opposite effect. Now shaky applicants who figured that the application increase would continue indefinitely are scurrying off to testing centers to retake Law Boards and Med Boards. But next year, when figures are collated again, they'll find that they have no monopoly on seizing the moment with this tactic of retreat and advance...
...into a kind of ritual dance; that way, if they were seen practicing capoeira, they could say that they were merely dancing. It was finally legalized in 1937, and in the past few years has gained broad popularity-as a folk art rather than as a self-defense tactic. "It has everything," says an enthusiast. "It is a beautiful dance, the music is contagious, it is spectacular exercise, it is airtight self-defense, and it is poetry...
Capoeira reverses usual dancing and fighting patterns; a capoeirista spends much of the time on his hands while his legs slash through the air in roundhouse kicks (pontapes) or straight jabs (pisadas). Tripping is a favorite tactic; so is the flying dropkick (voo de morsego) that norteamericano wrestlers love. Cartwheels are often used. One of the deadliest blows is the cabecada, a flying head butt to the solar plexus that, if properly delivered, can be fatal...
...Going to the mattresses" is a tradition of Mafia warfare, a tactic like lifting the drawbridge in a medieval Italian castle town. Last week about 20 members of the Gallo mob were dug in near Joey's old headquarters, a store front on Brooklyn's President Street, just across the street from the redoubt they occupied during the 1961-62 Gallo-Profaci war. If they have followed their practice from those days, they have nailed chicken wire over the windows, to prevent hand grenades from being lobbed in. In such campaigns, security is tight. Sentries are posted...