Word: tactically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Disgruntled Military. Ben Bella won by the simple tactic of outwaiting his enemies until they realized that public opinion was on his side. Holed up in the rugged Kabylia region, where they had promised to fight to "the last drop of blood." his two chief opponents, shrewd, sick (he has only one lung) Mohammed Boudiaf and clever, tough Belkacem Krim, finally saw the futility of their fight, agreed to negotiations with Ben Bella's top aide. Mohammed Khider. Boudiaf and Krim capitulated without even a face-saving compromise. They accepted intact Ben Bella's seven-man politburo, which...
...musical. Indeed, at one point a theater spotlight is used to light up the hero and his girl, with the rest of the screen in darkness. The hero is Professor Harold Hill (Robert Preston), a 1912 conman in the corn-belt town of River City, Iowa. Preston's tactic is to whip up enthusiasm in small towns for starting a brass band, sucker parents into buying the instruments and uniforms, and then skip out without teaching the young Sousaphiles a note. Preston is a musical illiterate but a one-man school of charm. As the music money pours...
...many observers this flurry of interest in political campaigns is not merely a passing fancy. There is a widespread realization that the old tactic of peace marches and demonstrations are too easily dismissed as "kid stuff" or "pinko" by the public...
Amassing 69 tallies in ten games, this trio has been practicing different offensive patterns for weeks in preparation for the hard-blocking, zone play of the Princeton defense. These variations could keep the Tigers off balance and stop them from double-teaming Watts (a favorite Tiger tactic in past years...
With only a few days to go before the U.S. launches its nuclear test series at Christmas Island, the Russians at Geneva last week continued the game by trying every conceivable stalling tactic to postpone the tests. At the 17-nation disarmament parley, Chief Soviet Delegate Valerian Zorin insisted that the U.S. delay at least until after Easter. U.S. Delegate Arthur Dean recalled that the Russian had already violated one moratorium with their huge tests last fall. Said he: "We will not be burned twice by the same fire...