Word: tactics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Life. Malenkov had stepped into the premiership bellowing the slogan, "A new life for all." There were to be more and better houses, amnesty for political prisoners, an abundance of consumer goods, honest art and, above all, peace. It was an obvious tactic: after a generation of Stalinist austerity and terror, the leader who could deliver these things might consolidate himself with the masses. As a matter of fact, everyone climbed on the "new life" bandwagon, including Khrushchev himself...
...uprising in Charlestown, they did not attempt simply to put more men under arms than the enemy could muster. Realizing that the salaries paid penal officers could never compete with the quick riches to be won by a criminal career in appealing to the underprivileged masses, they spurned the tactic of infantry legions, and brought lumbering over the roads from Fort Devens (at the risk of putting a few more kinks in Massachusetts' great new highway system) a tank--a weapon that could wreak more havoc against the enemy than they could possibly do to us. The fact that...
Some of Eisenhower's friends, who have been urging the President to roll up his sleeves and trade blows with McCarthy, noticed to their surprise that the aloof Eisenhower tactic had worked: Joe had been given enough rope and it went to his political neck...
...confused with the wingspread of the Air Force's "Goony Bird," the DC-3, which is 95 ft. *This tactic worked admirably during World War II in a similar situation on Ascension Island, involving sooty terns. Obviously convinced that one good tern deserves another, the birds multiplied so rapidly that they nearly took over Ascension, until the Air Transport Command began a program of egg-snatching...
Sweltering last spring in the uncomfortable heat of the Army-McCarthy hearing, President Eisenhower made the statement that the issue of Communism in the Democratic administration and "20 years of treason" would not be a part of this Fall's campaign. Severely, he decried the tactic of impugning the patriotism and loyalty of a responsible sections of the nation's opinion...