Word: tactically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...however disagreeable Johnson's vanity may be, the decision to let Goldwater trumpet the coming of his own defeat should be viewed not as a lack of direction on Johnson's part but as a campaign tactic, and a correct one at that. The outcome of the election is too crucial to risk exposure to attack by setting forth new issues when it isn't necessary. Better to stand on nearly a year's record in office (by no means an insignificant support), let the Senator scare the voters, and wait until January to propose and debate the Johnson program...
Every federal defendant has, thus, long been entitled to a list of Government witnesses in order to decide what testimony he must rebut when he is accused of crimes punishable by death-including espionage. Thus, the Sokolov tactic could not have surprised the Government; in fact, the court had approved it a full year before the abortive trial in Brooklyn. Why the Government really dropped the case is yet to be determined...
This is nothing but the Administration's version of the old tactic of spend and spend and spend, elect, elect and elect...
...mounting a small war against an estimated 100 to 300 guerrillas. Acting on a tip from loyal peasants, the government brought in combat troops to wipe out the Castroites. Venezuelan air force B-25s swept overhead, dropping anti-personnel bombs; 105-mm. artillery shelled the heavily wooded hillsides-a tactic more likely to produce a psychological than a military advantage. In 21 days of sniping and patrol-sized fire fights, seven Castroites were killed and 26 captured (the Venezuelan army did not report its own casualties). Then the guerrillas melted away into the hills...
...this point, the comedy brims with drolly catalogued details of village and family life. The laughter fades as Germi shows, in scene after scene, how ignorance, hypocrisy and habit can transmogrify normal human problems into sunny Sicilian-nightmares. Trying every tactic from simple perjury to a trumped-up kidnaping, Don Vincenzo struggles to marry off Agnese and salvage his honor, for his worst fear is that he might become an object of ridicule in the piazza. "We are an old family," Don Vincenzo tells the police. "I admit we've had some violent deaths-but outside...