Word: tacked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whiz. . . . I aim to study up on them things [foreign affairs]. ... I know some fellas that know all about those things. . . ." Republicans. While straws in the wind still showed a general trend to the G. O. P., Candidate Thomas E. Dewey, still leading the field, maintained his second tack on foreign policy. In New York (Jan. 20) Mr. Dewey was close to Mr. Roosevelt's position; in Isolationist Wisconsin (March 30) he went Isolationist with a big I; last week he insisted any additional aid to the Allies would lead to U. S. involvement...
...Young Communists and fellow travelers. But only a few resent this. They charge that H.S.U. policy is vicious because it appears to follow the Kremlin, and cite as an example the fact that last year the H.S.U. was asking for collective security, and now is on an isolationist tack. The answer to that is that the H.S.U. has learned well the lesson of the World War; that America has a fatal tendency to jump into Europe when war is raging, and then pull out when peace comes...
Rejecting all bids, Promoter Washburn took a new tack. He offered U. S. newlyweds free two-week honeymoons in the Gulf Coast paradise. In no time they had hit him with applications for some 2,000 suites. Laying out $15,000 to clean up the island, build shacks and a recreation hall, Mr. Washburn, a quiet, thin man with brown eyes, greying hair and the demeanor of a deacon, set out in search of a king & queen for Hog Island, rechristened Honeymoon Isle...
This time he took a different tack, tried selling stock in "small lots" of around $100,000 each. For four exhausting months he wined & dined, talked & cajoled, fumed & persuaded. One night last week Publisher Ingersoll sold his last parcel of stock, once more...
...Defeated, by the one-sided vote of 322-to-49, a motion to condemn Russia's at tack on Finland as "a clear act of aggres sion...