Word: tacked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...childhood has been to hack the tops off cereal cartons, stuff them into an envelope, pound on a stamp, and send away the lumpy packet. The boxtops, plus a coin or two, eventually elicit a "prize." The agony of the wait is exquisite, and the day some ticky-tack gadget arrives can be a private little Christmas...
Taking a different tack, Electric Fuel Propulsion, Inc., of Ferndale, Mich., has designed the Thunderbolt, which uses a more powerful and longer lasting battery system than other electrics, enabling it to travel almost twice as far between recharges at speeds of up to 70 m.p.h. Complete recharging takes about 90 minutes (special equipment and electric lines are necessary) and costs approximately 1? per mile. Most important, the Thunderbolt uses the body and other parts of standard-production Detroit automobiles, mounted on top of a special heavy-duty chassis. Main drawback: the price is a Cadillac-like...
...said he would provide "socially conscious leadership" as opposed to the law and order tack taken by the incumbent Stenvig...
...community. Students work each afternoon on jobs that Lodwick helped them land, and Lodwick marches them to the local bank once a week to deposit 10% of what they earn. One boy runs the projector at the local drive-in, another who loves horses helps at the town tack shop. One has worked out so well on a nearby cattle ranch that the owner wants to pay the youngster's tuition at agricultural college...
...THEN the confrontations really began. On April 8, 300 students forced their way onto the grounds of the President's house on Quincy Street to tack onto Pusey's front door a list of six demands, two of which were directly related to the continuing presence of ROTC on campus. The demonstrators demanded that Harvard abolish ROTC immediately by breaking all existing ROTC contracts and not entering into any new ones, and that the University replace all ROTC scholarships with University scholarships...