Word: tacked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...three years a small group of dedicated individuals known as the Harvard Polo Club has been putting in as much work as play to keep the game alive in the Harvard community. Besides the excitement of riding, the team contributes to such petty stable chores as grooming, tack cleaning and shovelling horseshit...
...quick goals by Hagerty and Frisbie indicated that Harvard was perhaps ready to unleash its potent at tack and run up a big lead. Then the Elis, particularly Fagan, began to take McHenry's advice, and Yale came storming back to eventually tie the score...
...Whatever tack the U.S. decides upon, SALT does not have forever to show results. U.S. experts point out that 18 to 24 months from now the Administration will be under pressure to decide whether or not to go ahead with the undersea long-range missile systems (ULMS) and the B-1 supersonic bomber. Unless a SALT agreement is reached, still another lap in the arms race is almost sure to begin...
Apparently much impressed with Lindsay Anderson's mode of directing Home, John Gielgud has taken the same tack in staging All Over. But in Home, the broken-off dialogue, the short pauses, the long silences, filled the stage with the resonant, poignant music of life's approaching nighttime. In Albee's play, the air is filled only with unsaid nothings. If ever actors could save a script, these are the ones to do it. Jessica Tandy and Colleen Dewhurst, in particular, have and show the dramatic power, skill and sensitivity to raise Lazarus. But then Lazarus...
...mental health workers in several Los Angeles agencies spent the day of the quake talking out their worries in group sessions, then offered similar sessions for ordinary citizens. The response was so overwhelming that the schedule of meetings is still being expanded. All the therapists are taking a similar tack: children are reassured that neither they nor their parents were harmed. People are advised to admit their fears, and to "deal with the reality of the situation." Explains Howard: "We emphasize how sturdy most houses are, that in most places only a few glasses were broken, that people...