Word: tactically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years and raised his two children, Genovese seemed a "kind and gentle man." But according to Joe Valachi, the underworld canary who sang for the Senate's McClellan committee, Neapolitan-born Racketeer Genovese, 65, is the "boss of all bosses." He arrived, Valachi explained, by a straightforward tactic: he had his rivals murdered...
Nunn, who successfully managed the 1956 Kentucky campaigns for Dwight Eisenhower and Republican Senators John Sherman Cooper and Thruston Morton, is a respected politician whose denial of this groin-type tactic seems worthy of belief. But there is no question that Nunn is using the civil rights issue for all it is worth, and that may be plenty in border state Kentucky. He was handed a readymade platform when Governor Bert Combs issued an executive order last June banning discrimination in all business establishments licensed by the state. Combs is not allowed to succeed himself, and Breathitt is his hand...
West Virginia's Jennings Randolph, Oregon's Wayne Morse, Wisconsin's Gaylord Nelson. Trying a similar tactic, though on a smaller scale, Massachusetts Republican Leverett Saltonstall came within a whisper of succeeding. He proposed a straight 1%, or $158 million, cut in procurement spending, lost by a bare two votes...
...Senate has not changed its approach substantially and neither has the President. He seems to be satisfied with a tactic perfected by Vince Lombardi and the Green Bay Packers: bash the opponent where he is strongest; when you beat him there, he's finished. The opponents of the treaty are finished. All that needs to be done now is to add up the score...
...hook, then spit it back into the water with what seems a shrug of disgust. Skilled fishermen sometimes try to trick a white marlin onto the hook by "racing" the bait (skipping it swiftly along the surface), then suddenly dropping it backward as the openmouthed fish approaches. Even that tactic often fails. "Ain't nothing in the ocean so hard to outguess as a marlin," says one Ocean City charter-boat captain. "All I've learned in 15 years is never to expect no favors from them...