Word: tactically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan, M-G-M likes to avoid projection-room screenings and show its films to reviewers at "sneak previews" in regular theaters. The tactic seems designed to drown out critical judgments with loud sounds of audience approval...
Thus the gamesman callously makes use of Sportsmanship itself, only one gambit among others that include Luncheonship, Guestmanship, Advicemanship, Clothesmanship and Brinkmanship. In addition, Author Potter has invented the following conversational "ploy" (gamesman for tactic) which he gives as an example of the "secondary hamper...
...tactic was old; international Communism had gone through three distinct phases of softening its militancy.† As early as last January, there were signs that the Red propaganda line would revert to "peace." Girding their loins for the Italian elections and the Marshall Plan battle. Communists meeting in Milan formed a "peace front" (TIME, Jan. 19), which in Palmiro Togliatti's words would "characterize Communist activity throughout the present historical phase" and would play on "the profound anguish which grips all classes at the very thought...
...political battlefield of Europe it would be the climactic tactic of the war of nerves-the cunning offer of a salve for the nerves the Communists themselves have shredded. There would be a deep, unreasoning sigh of relief from millions of Europeans. It would rise spontaneously and without reflection and it would be heard happily in the halls of the Kremlin. With rehearsed righteousness, a picture would be drawn of the West appearing before a Communist bar of justice, and if the accused did not agree to a 'reasonable' solution, then the jury would be asked to pronounce...
...Death," said the Tsarina, "is a somewhat maturing experience. What Nicky means is that between two systems of society, which embody diametrically opposed moral and political principles, even peace may be only a tactic of struggle...