Word: tack
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beyond the Texas panhandle, Gene Howe, publisher of the Amarillo Globe and News, was fondly known as "Old Tack." His folksy daily column, "The Tactless Texan," was the most popular newspaper column in the state, and across Texas he was known as "Mr. Panhandle, Amarillo's one-man Chamber of Commerce." Ranch hands named their pet horses Old Tack, and readers named their children after him. Texans seldom recalled that "Mr. Panhandle" had actually been born in Kansas...
...last week, at the end of his column, he tacked on one of his familiar aphorisms: "An old Texas saying: Sam Houston made us free and Sam Colt made us equal." Next morning, Old Tack, 66, was found in the back seat of his car on a country road, a bullet in his head and a Colt revolver in his hand...
Nolo contendere can mean just about anything. To the prosecutor, it spells an economical victory. To the defendant it means relief from what he considers the boring tack of proving his innocence. To the newspapers and the public it justifies all their conjectures, no matter what they were...
...Switzer came off the bench yesterday afternoon at Soldiers Field to tack a highly dramatic finish onto what had been an exciting 13 inning pitchers duel with Tufts. Switzer hit a pinch double with two out and two on to give the Crimson a well earned 3 to 2 win over the Jumbos...
Once the police had Sutton the Celebrated, they tried to tack on him every big, unsolved robbery in the country. The first was the famous Brink's case. They decided that if anyone had master-minded the artful dodge, it was the Actor. But Willy didn't give them much help. He remained silent after a short denial. And the police couldn't find any other link between Sutton and the masked marauders. But there was another sort of link. And under the circumstances, it's hard to escape these conclusions: 1) Willy Sutton had nothing to do with...