Word: tactics
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...examination of those witnesses reflected traditional "Southern" attitudes rather than the normal mode of courtroom proceedings. All the Negro witnesses were addressed by their first names only, since no Negro in the South is accorded the decency of any title, even one so simple as "Mr." In addition, the tactic of the State's attorney was to establish that each one of the Negroes at the ball park had had something to drink; thus attempting to cast these persons in their traditional mold as irresponsible, happy-go-lucky, and rather stupid...
...sweltering heat of Virginia's Prince Edward County, Negroes woke from long torpor last week to demonstrate against the most infamous segregationist tactic in the U.S. - the closing of all public schools there since 1959. White officials requested extra jail space in eight surrounding counties - enough, said one Negro leader, "to house every citizen of Prince Edward County, Negro and white, including horses, cattle and dogs." The poignant point of the strug gle was summed up in one teen-age picket's placard. It read: DEMOCRASY. "These niggers can't even spell," scoffed a white cop. "What...
...down from the buzzards' roost, the people in the audience turned to one another with smiles. The strategy was clever; they intended to call one Negro for each twelve whites so as to vitiate the constitutional objection to the selection of jurors. There was no chance to test the tactic, because the defense had used its seven strikes and the twelve men had been chosen before the names of the Negroes had been reached...
...social conscience have a somewhat ludicrous ring to them. Surely the Junior Senator from Arizona does not seriously propose that an order preventing military personnel from patronizing businesses which do not uphold the basic freedoms and decencies the armed forces are supposed to be defending is a "police state" tactic. And, recalling the vehemence of Senatorial attacks on the Defense Department when it prevented officers from engaging in free-lance public education on the dangers of Communism, it is curious to find Sens. Goldwater and Stennis now deeply concerned that the military has been placed "in the mainstream of swirling...
...Though the Tunku had demanded that Singapore kick in 55% of its revenues to the federal treasury, Lee managed to whittle the figure down to 40%. But overplaying his hand, he then held out for 39% . So infuriated was the Tunku at this Macy's v. Gimbels tactic that he delivered an ultimatum to Singapore to get in the federation or stay out and refused to go to London for the final bargaining sessions...