During the subsequent national elections, the Poujadists bulldozed their way into town meetings, shouting down opposing candidates and threatening violence: a grim rehearsal for Tea Party tactics during last year's health care debates.
WASHINGTON — There is a reason American military officers express grim concern over the tactics used by Iranian sailors last weekend: a classified, $250 million war game in which small, agile speedboats swarmed a naval convoy to inflict devastating damage on more powerful warships.
More like Al Qaeda than French partisans of the nineteen-forties, they are grim, unsympathetic zealots, who use scattershot terror tactics and have no qualms about causing the suffering of innocent bystanders.
The BBC director general did his very best to convince the chancellor that this was no idle threat or negotiating tactic but a matter of grim and prudent financial reality.
There are grim, disturbing accounts of beatings, waterboardings, and other tactics degrading to the prisoners and degrading to the reputation of the United States.
It's also possible, though, that the desire for someone entirely new represents a desire for new and more nimble tactics or a way to cut through the greasy film of grim spectacle extruding from the White House at all times. .
But the grim reality is that today's employees are all too familiar with the tongue-in-cheek tactics that companies use to get employees be "part of the team".
Far from attacking him for these views and tactics, most of the other Republican candidates, most of the time, have tried to outdo him with the grim nature of their own message.
