Word: tacked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Professor Leach disagreed strongly with the Law Faculty's decision, he might have issued a contemporary statement with his views and his reasons. But to take the tack he did, just as the issue was cooling, was not in the best interests of the School he has so long served so well...
Author Kennedy's aim, it seems, is to warn Americans that neither sex nor success is the big thing in life. He suggests that Mollie, in her concern for nonprofit community centers, is on a much sounder tack than Bart. But these didactic reflections should not seriously interfere with the sale of the book, either in hard covers or in the inevitable paperback reprints...
Reynolds' stubby hands turn huge trees into strange antler-like fans, fill his canvas with marsh reeds as gaunt and glittering spikes, and dandelions as wildly dancing figures-all in deep green, creamy white, swirls of rich brown, red and yellow. Sometimes he takes the other tack, drains his canvas of color then his moonlight scenes become spooky tangles of waving hop vines, brush piles and squat, triangular chicken houses...
...that Israel is lost to her as a Mediterranean stronghold, Russia's present policy is to curry favor with the Arabs. The Prague trials, the mass confiscation of Jewish property both at home and in the satellites, and the diplomatic break with Israel are obvious evidences of this new tack...
...saved by the impact of the untutored but emphatic Clooney personality At night, when the daily shots were screened, it became apparent that she was pulling the yarn together. Paramount took a new tack: in the course of shooting, it reoriented the picture toward Newcomer Clooney...