Word: tactics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...made in a deposition from Martin Dies, onetime chairman of the House Un-American Activities Committee. But then the defense quoted some words of praise for the John Birch Society from a California Senate subcommittee on un-American activities. Once that report had been introduced as evidence, the tactic backfired. McGaw's attorneys were able to read parts that the defense lawyers had ignored, sections that compared the Birch Society to the Communist Party, just as McGaw had done. After that, the jury was convinced...
...they were pursuing the very enclave policy now being urged on the Americans. As long as a guerilla force has complete freedom of movement, it can mass its forces and choose its battles so that it surprises even an "enclave" with superior numbers. The "search and destroy" tactic is not an alternative to "securing territory which is already held," as the editorial states. It is a necessary corollary to it. For territory can only be secure so long as the guerillas are aggressively presented from consolidating forces that are large enough to overwhelm areas "already held...
...field combat unit in Viet Nam was out hunting in battalion-or larger-sized operations-and so, too, showing the flag of allied support, were the South Vietnamese, the Koreans, Australians and New Zealanders. The other G.I.s had little luck compared with the 173rd's: whether out of tactic or sheer prudence, the Viet Cong lay low. That, in a measure, deprived the U.S. of the firm point Johnson wanted to make: that to underestimate his resolve could be disastrous. So the U.S. made it in other ways. The bombers usually busy over North Viet Nam were...
Some tutors grumbled about Handlin's tactic, but he quickly set up the promised five-man committee with himself as chairman. The other committee members were, like Handlin, all prominent senior members of the Department: Giles Constable, Elliott Perkins, David E. Owen, and Bernard Bailyn. The eight tutors had one meeting with the committee before the academic year ended in June. "We talked quite openly about what was going on," said one, "and reached a sort of agreement about sophomores." But the question or honors remained undecided, particularly whether the senior seminars would be used as equal substitutes...
...jump to a height of 12 ft., has averaged 14 rebounds a game so far this year). And they compensate for their lack of height with a go-go game designed to rattle bigger, slower opponents. On defense, St. Joe's favorite tactic is the "zone press"-a full-court, blanket defense described by one opposition player as "like running into a windmill." The idea, says Ramsay, "is to stop the man who is advancing the ball on the dribble and cut off the passing outlets...