Word: tactically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...elected by male and female heads of families) have repeatedly raised issues with the slavishly pro-Franco majority on key legislation. Convinced that Franco's pledge of "democratic evolution" should come sooner rather than later, they have managed to get an airing for their views by the novel tactic of putting on a kind of legislative road show all over Spain. Last week, in their boldest challenge to authority yet, a dozen of them gathered in Valladolid and vowed to keep right on meeting in defiance of a ban recently imposed by Cortes President Antonio Iturmendi Bañales...
...scension that every self-respecting Negro has a right to resent-and does resent." As a semanticist, Hayakawa said, he wished to comment on "the intellectually slovenly habit, now popular among whites as well as blacks, of denouncing as racist those who oppose or are critical of any Negro tactic or demand...
...classic example of tactical guile was offered by the Prophetess Deborah in her battle with the Canaanite general, Sisera. Pursued by better-armed forces, Deborah, according to the Book of Judges, refused to close with them headon. Instead, she took up a defensive position on the slopes of Mount Tabor. When Sisera ventured into the open to attack-and a providential rainfall bogged down his chariots-Deborah's troops charged down the mountainside to annihilate the Canaanite army. The tactic of luring an enemy into a trap that favors the defense, Gale says, is fundamentally the same maneuver employed...
...students and mothers demonstrated against inadequate winter clothing allowances for their children and demanded uniform state welfare guidelines. Francis W. Sargent, lieutenant governor, offered to meet the next day with representatives of the mothers' group and asked the demonstrators to leave. They called this tactic a stall and remained in the State House until 10:30 p.m. when they were arrested...
...hang themselves with their own words. When Robert Kennedy visited Tokyo's Waseda University in 1962, he made a gallant attempt to quiet an anti-American mob by inviting the noisiest of the hecklers to share the microphone. Edmund Muskie, the Democratic vice-presidential candidate, used the same tactic this year with more success. And at a rally last week, Nixon made the best of a sticky situation by giving opponents an opportunity to criticize without heckling. He allowed 1,200 Syracuse University students to sing a ballad to counter his campaign, and even silenced his supporters who tried...