Word: tacke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They have also tried what Raudenbush calls sweet-talking. They call a worker in and say, "We like you and have a lot of hope for your advancement. But we don't think you should get involved in this union." "This tack breaks down when the workers start talking and realize everyone's been promised advancement, Raudenbush said...
Southern Cal Coach Bob Boyd took the same tack, and came within a point of victory over Lew Alcindor and the unbeaten, No. 1-ranked U.C.L.A. Bruins. Alcindor wound up with only 13 points. At the buzzer, the score was tied 31-31; U.C.L.A. salvaged a 40-35 overtime victory. And then there was No. 10-ranked Vanderbilt, also forced into overtime to pull out a 51-41 victory over freeze-minded Georgia...
...question is, then, whether the student leaders will alter their present tack in the next letter to President Johnson - either by defining their criticism more clearly, and stating their opposition to further escalation explicitly, or by organizing more broadly on campuses across the nation...
Both Wallaces made clear that Lurleen's election will keep the state on the same tack as before and allow George to pursue his 1968 presidential ambitions-though, Lurleen suggested, there might be a slight change of style in Montgomery. "It will be an attitude," said Lurleen, "reflecting an inner feeling of a wife and a mother. I shall be inclined to examine programs of each of our departments from the standpoint of how they affect the family...
Letters from an Axman. The Mountbatten investigation was ordered when the Labor government came under at tack after the escape of Soviet Spy George Blake in October. Britain's Victorian prisons were not built for the liberal policies that today allow the inmates wide freedoms. "Most prisoners," said the report, "are kept in buildings that were constructed in the 19th century when, in effect, imprisonment was solitary confinement and all security depended on this fact...