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Egged on by Anslinger's blunt rejection of science in favor of scare tactics, dire warnings about the imminent physical risks of weed kept coming: The Devil's Harvest (1942) sold audiences on the tagline "a fifth column sowing destruction in the youth of America," while the poster for 1949's She Shoulda Said "No"! advertised "pain & anguish… hopped-up harlots… psychotic dope fiends".
Even if dire warnings of Orwellian police tactics are an old game, there's little question that facial recognition and tracking software are increasingly available to help cops locate and pursue suspects.
At the time, many predicted that the tactic would have dire political consequences for the G.O.P., but the following year the Party expanded its majority in the House and took over the Senate.
Iain Duncan Smith, a leading Tory leave voice, spoke of successful "psy ops" – or cold war tactics, used against the dire economic warnings of Project Fear.
A notable tactic is to enforce dire consequences on people who don't follow them.
The disruptive tactics are appropriate given the dire nature of their cause, aimed at hijacking and redirecting a conversation that would not otherwise be about dead and endangered black bodies.
The change was made in the past two decades largely as a survival tactic for small colleges in dire straits.
Paul took the responsibility of changing tactics: "Like certain generals I believe that in dire emergency it is often better to attack.
In fact, they are often accused of being superficial and sensationalistic and of relying on "scare tactic" consumer reports whose promotional spots warn of dire consequences should viewers miss them.
