Word: tactically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sensational Arrests. Germans are distressingly familiar with Untersuchungshaft; it inevitably became a favorite Gestapo tactic. But only recently, as the result of a number of sensational investigative arrests, has a reform movement been started. Half a dozen ranking executives of West Germany's big Henschel Werke (locomotives, trucks, land movers) have been jailed on suspicion of defrauding the West German Defense Ministry, including President Fritz-Aurel Goergen, who was hauled away from a banquet honoring Chancellor Ludwig Erhard (TIME, May 8). Germany's biggest clothing manufacturer, Alfons Muller-Wipperfurth, was grabbed from a hospital bed and jailed...
...good-sized crowd had gathered. Another twenty minutes gave the disturbance time to swell to major proportions. By midnight 2,500 students filled the Square. After the crowd had crippled three trolley cars by disconnecting their power lines, the police moved in with tear gas, a tactic not to be repeated for over twenty years. But the patrolmen's efforts failed. About 1500 students fought their way up to Radcliffe, where they milled about yelling and hooting for most of the night...
...crickets, while the government soldiers -many of them city boys, most of them encumbered with heavier equipment and moving in much larger units -are increasingly bogged down in unfamiliar terrain. In recent months U.S. advisers have pondered ways of improving mobility during the rainy season. One new tactic: a buildup in small boats to transport troops across paddyfields. But hustling the East in the rainy season promises to be even more frustrating than usual, though last week five government battalions were ambitiously attempting to flush the Reds from a stronghold in the northern mountains...
...tactic capable of moving the Senate to activity in the area of civil rights can hardly be described as "pointless...
...characters become infected with the author's garrulity, deliver portentous sermons, and then drift off to irresolution. The dry prose becomes dewy. There are long, dare-taking sex scenes of the kind that, in he-she form, would seem overwritten in a Frank Yerby novel. Storey's tactic is not to ask the reader to tolerate homosexualism intellectually, but to acquiesce emotionally, thus merely increasing the reader's impatience...