Word: tactically
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Despite this vagueness of program, Kennedy won his victory with the strength of personality and tactic. The U.S. had little known or cared about the boyish, tousle-haired Massachusetts Senator until he erupted on his primary campaign last year. With detached fascination they watched him lift the nomination out of the hands of seasoned pros, felt the incredible force of his bandwagon organization as it coursed over the U.S. Over the months he etched the image of a driving personality, the peculiar quality of his hasty rhetoric that seemed to magnetize though it lacked warmth. Unsmiling for the most part...
Memories of McCarthy. "Unfair," complained the Michigan Fair Election Practices Commission. The Democratic-leaning Washington Post denounced it as "sheer demagogy . . . bigotry in the guise of anti-bigotry." A Detroit News editorial compared it to "the McCarthy tactic of yelling 'Communist' every time anybody disagreed with the Wisconsin Senator's ideas or methods. Today the too common practice is to holler 'bigot' at anyone in the opposite camp...
...bait traps at the present rate, it would last for 300 years, but the Department of Agriculture has bigger ideas. By liberally sprinkling an infested area with synthetic sex lure mixed with poison, it hopes to exterminate the gypsy moth males, dooming the females to chastity. If this tactic works, the next step will be to synthesize the lures of other pestiferous insects...
...Negro, albeit unconsciously, sought to convince the white that even if his appearance would never be white, his behavior did not conform to the stereotype of the sexually licentious, Knife-wielding darkie. In the fact of so little opportunity for mutual contact and understanding a spectacular tactic was called...
...nature of such circumstances that the choice of tactic may, by unconscious design, meet the requirements of the moment. And this is what happened. The perfect way both to fight for one's rights and at the same time to convince one's opponent that one is not an uncontrolled savage, is to fight, to resist--non-violently. The pictures and stories of Negroes at lunch counters and on picket lines, being spat upon, cursed, struck, beaten, dragged away and yet never speaking back, never lifting a limb in self-defense--this "new Negro" broke the image of slovenly, slap...