Word: tactically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...original tactic of keeping demands vague has caused trouble in the ranks. The poor people at Resurrection City have very little idea what their leaders are after, and they are left with a feeling of confusion and a lack of direction. Many came to Washington to escape poverty at home. "I came here because things are better," a woman from Lebanon, Miss., told me. Many expect to stay permanently. But so far, life in the plywood A-frame shelters has hardly been uplifting--materially or spiritually. It is uncomfortable and boring. People are going home. The Washington Star said that...
...Rose also suggested that a defense is to smear Vaseline on uncovered skin, a tactic used by Columbia University rioters among others. The manufacturers hold that Vaseline traps the droplets of Mace and so is a hindrance rather than a help...
...industrial nations into lowering their tariff barriers to international trade. As head of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) ever since its creation in 1948, he earned a reputation as a trusted and respected mediator. But when cooperation eluded him, the outspoken Briton's most characteristic tactic was a blunt threat to quit. And often enough, that threat got him what he wanted...
Whether Ling can succeed in the close-knit steel industry-where other conglomerate kings like Norton Simon have failed-remains to be seen. LTV plans to stick to a well-tried tactic: as in earlier acquisitions, it will go along with the old management. The stock that LTV acquires will be put into a five-man voting trust until 1971, with present J. & L. officers having a controlling three-man vote among the trustees. But there will be plenty of dividends for LTV. Jones & Laughlin recently reported first-quarter earnings of $11,706,000 on sales of $277 million...
Inside Hamilton Hall, 85 Negro students, who had been advised by such cool heads as Negro Psychologist Kenneth Clark, decided that their most effective tactic would be to file quietly into the vans (unlike white demonstrators in other buildings, they had kept their occupied quarters immaculate). With the two highest Negro officers in the New York police force observing, it was a model arrest operation-except that no one had brought a key for the main door and it had to be forced open...