Word: tactics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...yard each, and offered them for sale at $20 apiece. So far, they have sold about 1,000, thus complicating to a fare-thee-well the paper work that the Government must perform to gain control of the land. At the very least, said antidam Farmer Lynn Martin, the tactic "will give us a war chest." But how long or how effectively it will obstruct the dam, he can only guess. Perhaps only until the next flood...
...Congress who can be seduced to trade their votes for bribes or women. The Korea lobby scandal is evidence of the corruption that may always endanger the delicate relationship between the lobbyist and the lobbied. Yet until the recent reforms in Congress, the modern lobbyist's most effective tactic was to concentrate on the committees where the vital decisions were made. A few decades ago, A.F.L.-C.I.O. Lobbyist Walter Mason helped labor's cause by getting Pennsylvania Republican Carroll Kearns so drunk on the nights before key meetings of the House Education and Labor Committee that he was unable...
Ominously, the raids by guerrillas loyal to Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) and the Zimbabwe African Peoples Union (ZAPU), headed by Joshua Nkomo, appear to be aimed at new targets. Both black and white moderates have become priority victims?a tactic apparently intended to shatter the country's already sagging morale. In one of the most gruesome of such recent terrorist incidents, 39 black moderates of Sithole's faction who had been sent into the bush to convince dissidents that the transition was working were captured and executed; their bodies were then laid out by the guerrillas...
Chekhov's tactic is the intercepted monologue. Occasionally one character overhears another character telling the world how sorry he is for himself. The world turns out to be the audience. Self-pity is one of the most powerful weapons in Chekhov's dramatic arsenal, but it only elicits sympathy for his characters because he engages the audience in personal self-pity. The playgoer is not necessarily devastated when the cherry orchard is sold at the auction block or by news that the three sisters never get to Moscow. But it is a rare playgoer who has no nagging...
...aides, meanwhile, professed to be surprised that most commentators were more impressed by the hard language than the olive branch. Some of the phrasing undoubtedly fueled the worries of Carter's critics about U.S.-Soviet relations. Idaho's Senator Frank Church grumbled: "We are hearing the old tactic, the Russians are coming, the Russians are coming, and it is being used with disturbing frequency...