Word: tactically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...charged that the protest "could be a delaying tactic to mislead a lot of people." Stone said that the local had previously agreed to the eligibility of the two individuals whose votes could decide the jurisdictional election...
Whispering Campaign. An increasingly popular tactic among the pundits has been to quote Eisenhower speeches and extracts from the Republicans' 1952 and 1956 campaign platforms in an attempt to prove, as the New York Daily News's John ("Capitol Stuff") O'Donnell charged recently, that Ike has repudiated his promise to resist "socialist" spending. In fact, argues David Lawrence, Eisenhower -and the Republican platforms as well-coppered their campaign promises of Government economies with the qualification that none would be allowed at the expense of the defense program or vital domestic services...
Platform Republicans. The White House was pumping fast to fill the vacuum. Ike had attempted to toss responsibility for budget cutting back to Congress with his letter to House Speaker Sam Rayburn proposing minor cuts (TIME, April 29), but that tactic impressed neither Congressmen nor constituents. Now it was time for pressure on all fronts. Rallying point for the attack: the Republican platform...
...first is to hold the bill in committee until a filibuster would kill it on the Senate floor. Every day's delay helps, since a crowded schedule at the end of the session will not leave time for Southern oratory to exhaust itself. A second and more insidious tactic, the specialty of Senator Ervin of North Carolina, is to raise doubts as to the constitutionality of the measure in the minds of those non-Southern senators who still fear addition to federal power at the expense of states' rights...
...opposite sides of a high bush." With "positive thinking" all came right in the end ("We found God and each other in a blueberry patch"). A disgruntled dining-car waiter was about ready to crown some of his patrons with a tray when Author Peale suggested the nonviolent tactic of "shooting prayers'' at them instead. Result: "smiles all around...