Word: tactically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...guerrillas, led by a tough young trooper named Vo Nguyen Giap, harassed the Japanese and perfected the tactics of jungle Marxism. When 200,000 Chinese Nationalist troops marched into Viet Nam with French approval at war's end, Giap's guerrillas were ready to continue the struggle. But Ho typically preferred the more subtle tactic of turning ally against ally, and promptly sought to persuade the French to oust the Chinese again. Ho knew that France would be an easier adversary to deal with. Besides, there was the age-old hatred and fear of the Chinese...
...Congress recognized that equal employment status does not mean equal rights, and Smith's delaying tactic failed. Now women can apply for jobs from stevedore to sewer cleaner-though one exemption of Title VII permits employers to disqualify women where sex is a bona fide "occupational qualification." The Title nowhere defines what such a disqualification might be. "What do we do," asked an airline personnel manager, "when a girl walks in here with the credentials and asks for a pilot's job?" The possibilities are boundless. Must Cleveland's Exclusively Girls Employment Service change its name...
...while the Japanese entry (Yujiro Ishihara) pilots a loose assemblage of box kites driven by kamikaze impulses. The flyer in everyone's ointment is England's villainous Sir Percy (Terry-Thomas), who sends his man to saw away struts or detach landing gear on rival planes, a tactic that leads to many a droll mid-air crisis...
...water fight on Plympton St. A crowd gathered, and by midnight some 2500 students had packed the Square. The rioters strained the patience of the Cambridge police by disconnecting the power lines of three trolleys, thus rendering them unfit to carry passengers. Finally the police used tear gas, a tactic they were not to repeat for 25 years. The Square emptied, but 1500 diehards made their way to Radcliffe, where they spent the remainder of the night yelling, cavorting, and milling around...
...much of today's journalism would be all but impossible without anonymous information. In Washington, where the calculated leak has become a Government tactic, the not-for-attribu-tion story is a fact of journalistic life. Says Peter Lisagor, Washington bureau chief of the Chicago Daily News: "Any new reporter in Washington, fresh from the city hall beat where he was accustomed to putting nothing in the paper without identifying the source, will find that if he tries that here, his sources will...