Word: tactically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...horse racing was virtually suspended, drew 30,000,000 fans to Harringay, White City and the 102 other British tracks last year. During the war, when there was not much else to gamble on, the customers thought there was dirty work but nobody did anything about it. (One suspected tactic: giving the favorite a bucket of water to drink just before post time, so that he bogged down...
...last week Harold Stassen knew that his "Paul Revere's Ride," a tested tactic from his 1938 campaign for governor, had routed an already beaten opponent. Instead of the expected close finish, popular Stassenman Ed Thye breezed in ahead of longtime (24 years) isolationist Senator Henrik Shipstead with a 3-to-2 lead. With a near-record Republican turnout, winner Thye looked like a sure bet for the Senate in the fall. His running-mate, Luther Youngdahl, was nominated for the Minnesota governor's chair by an even larger majority...
Decision & Reaction. Next day, the striking local held a meeting, decided that it liked the Davis tactic of mass picketing -and the courts be damned. Next morning more than 1,400 pickets formed a solid wall around the plant. Acting Sheriff William J. Morrow talked with union leaders, asked them not to force his hand...
...Moscow Jimmy Byrnes and Ernie Bevin recognized the move as a typical Russian conference tactic. They recalled the sudden announcement of a Soviet-sponsored Austrian government during the San Francisco conference, and the Russian recognition of the Lublin Poles just before Yalta. The claim to Trabzon was also recognizable as another stathmos in the Russian march toward the Mediterranean...
Delay, apparently, would be the Navy's final tactic. Forrestal has asked that the whole thing be "elevated" to a presidential commission. Assistant Secretary of the Navy Struve Hensel pleaded: "We see no reason for frantic rush." The Navy will recommend that the whole matter be given for final adjudication to an umpire committee. Presumably the Navy would accept its decision. Presumably it will also accept the decision of Congress, if one is made without calling in a new umpire...