Word: tactically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Everything they have done, however, has been cautiously legal. With one basic tactic, Parsons and his partners have escaped the onus of becoming a bank holding company and evaded the restrictions of branch banking. They have simply set up a new and separate partnership to take over each bank. And Michigan has more than its share ready for takeover. In the Depression days of the early '30s many small Michigan banks were bought up by Reconstruction Finance Corporation examiners who had worked over their books and recognized their long-term potential. Those ex-examiners have now reached retirement...
...almost every case, effective student insurgents at Harvard have rejected the tactic of mass civil disobedience. Yet the obstructive sit-in in Mallinckrodt two weeks ago, and the Faculty response to the students involved, seem to have provoked a more tortured, mind-bending reappraisal of university policies than Mem Church rallies, student government, and long-winded petitions ever have...
Despite their heavy losses, the Viet Cong tried again next day, this time attempting a two-pronged attack from the east across the airstrip runway. It was a disastrous tactic; a howitzer at the south end of the field was in a position to fire right down the runway-"like shooting down a bowling alley," as one of the gunners put it. As the Viet Cong, 30 and 40 at a time, tried to sprint across the strip, the big howitzer shells exploded in their midst. The gunners fired off 575 rounds during the battle, blistering the paint...
...moment last Wednesday. Their activities grew out of justifiable bitterness over the war and the use of napalm. At most, only a few of those punished were determined to mount a premeditated assault on the rules of the University. And many of the demonstrators now regret the tactic of obstruction they used to protest the war and Dow's appearance at Harvard...
Putnam said at a rally in Harvard Yard, "If there is to be any punishment, I ask to be included in that punishment." Putnam told a crowd of 500 that he demanded equal punishment for all even though he thought the sit-in tactic a mistake, and one not democratically arrived at. (The sit-in idea had been turned down at a Students for a Democratic Society meeting Tuesday night...