Word: tactics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reform is fast becoming the 1972 campaign's top political issue. George McGovern won the Wisconsin primary in part by never letting up in his attacks on the tax structure, and George Wallace pulled an impressive number of votes with much the same tactic. There is even speculation in Washington that the President may call a special session of Congress in late summer or early fall to offer some reform and take the issue away from the Democrats. After getting around the country a bit in the primaries, John Lindsay advised: "What someone ought to do is organize...
...former chairman James M. Roche said in a speech last year: "Some of the enemies of business now encourage an employee to be disloyal to the enterprise. They want to create suspicion and disharmony. However this is labeled-industrial espionage, whistle blowing or professional responsibility-it is another tactic for spreading disunity and creating conflict...
...paramour: in California, dallying with a minor was statutory rape. Charlie and Lita were married in November 1924. She was his second teen-age bride. Three years later the Chaplins were divorced after loud litigation. The American public booed his on-screen image; annihilation beckoned. Chaplin tried a master tactic. "I married Lita Grey because I loved her," he announced in the sentimental idiom of the silent film. "Like other foolish men, I loved her more when she wronged me, and I'm afraid I still love her." The statement rescued Chaplin's career-until next time...
...busing will undoubtedly strengthen the resistance. Boston's school committee has used several means to avoid integration. One of its favorites was the rule of "open enrollment," which theoretically (but only theoretically) permitted any student to transfer to any school that had an empty seat. But the main tactic, and the main rallying cry of the school committee's then-Chairman Louise Day Hicks, was to argue that the "neighborhood school" must never be disturbed by busing. "The Boston school system is integrated, therefore it cannot be segregated," Mrs. Hicks liked to say. In fact, however...
...Since 1968 the tactic has been massive bombing, followed by sending in commandos. They weren't able to stop the advance of our fighters that way either...