Word: tactically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...discomforts to retailers, has been going on for months in big and little stores all over the U.S. Sometimes the cards read: ASK THE MANAGER ABOUT OTHER CHOICE COMMUNIST GOODS FOR SALE IN THIS STORE, OR BUY ALL YOUR COMMUNIST GOODS AT THIS STORE. Very often, this "card party" tactic has its desired effect: the store removes the tainted merchandise -Polish hams, Czechoslovakian glass, Yugoslavian coat hangers, Hungarian handbags, Bulgarian hat racks, East German watches -that had been imported from Iron Curtain countries...
...game is disconcertingly simple. Or so it appears. ''We always hit them at their strongest point." he says. "We attack their best men in an effort to break their morale. If you can bring down their best men, it's all over." Opponents respect the tactic. On defense, explains Philadelphia Linebacker Chuck Bednarik. "the Packers just hand you the ball and say. 'Here it is, see what you can do with it.' " On offense, says Pittsburgh Quarterback Bobby Layne. "everybody knows what's coming, but the point is that you can't stop...
...satire, inflation deflates, and the Fringe troupe uses this tactic brilliantly in a parody of Shakespeare's chronicle plays. After a nonsensically high-flown prologue, the nobles swagger on in giddily foppish hat creations, and promptly get flummoxed in the Bard's hopelessly entangling military alliances...
...forward-straight into a barrage of overhand rights and crisp left hooks that snapped his head back and opened a small cut at the edge of his left eye. Desperately, Fullmer began to elbow and butt, trying to bull Tiger into the ropes. Ruthlessly, the Nigerian Tiger mimicked him, tactic for tactic. By the ninth round, blood cascaded down the champion's left cheek. Sitting horror-stricken at ringside, four-year-old DeLaun Fullmer screamed, "Daddy! Daddy!"-and his mother cradled his head in her arms. The ring doctor examined Fullmer's cuts between rounds, seemed about...
...tactic can be dangerous. In Indiana, for example, Republican Senator Homer Capehart advocated a direct U.S. invasion of Cuba, hastily backed away when it seemed to be losing him votes. Yet the Democrats are clearly embarrassed by the foreign policy issue, prefer to discuss domestic matters whenever possible. If Cuba must be talked about, they argue, it should be talked about in the vaguest of terms. Urges the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee in a memo to party candidates: "Be for a course of action on Cuba, but a course of action short of invasion...