Word: tactically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...doubt of the impact of their argument. Everywhere, everyone capable of understanding the significance of the Russian achievement recognized the impressive technological, industrial and scientific skills that lay behind it. Intuitively, people sensed the national purpose that produced the Russian program. Physicist Edward Teller used a sure, fund-winning tactic when he testified before a Senate committee in favor of the Apollo project. "What do you expect to find on the moon?" he was asked. His answer: "The Russians...
...name, rightist in reality" who "wave the red flag to oppose the red flag." It also warns against "those who listen superficially" to the words of Mao but, in fact, are working against him. "The red ocean is a big plot" is an attack on a particularly dirty tactic in poster warfare: some anti-Maoists have been painting entire walls solid, sacrosanct red, thereby preventing the Red Guards from plastering them with ideographs...
Observers feel that this tactic has failed, for no matter how Californians feel about the rebels, they still want tuition-free education. "In the end, everyone thinks only about his own child," one disgruntled Democrat explained. "I want mine to go to Cal and I don't like anyone who gets in the way of that...
...term is simply a confusing synonym for a common idea, then it is jargon. However, few if any of the words you attack meet this definition. Instead, you seem to be attacking concepts that you cannot understand without exerting some effort-a common anti-intellectual tactic...
...much more sympathetic light than is the student himself, the argument runs. Knowing the precedents and the acceptable arguments, the Senior Tutor is in the best position to present the most palatable defense. The student, on the other hand, would be likely to plead instead of argue--a tactic which could only antagonize the members of the Board. Furthermore, Dean Watson argues that if a student were brought before the Board he would be "subject to a number of embarrassing questions which might otherwise be over-looked...