Word: tacked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rebirth has been mixed. The managing editor of the Post from 1965 until its demise, Otto Friedrich, declared: "A quarterly dedicated to the past with covers by Norman Rockwell doesn't seem very promising." Pete Martin, one of the old Post's most popular mainstays, took another tack. "In an age of specialization, I see a place for the Post-as a specialized magazine appealing to people between...
...Although the Harvard team had only about a two hour rest after a three and one half hour bus ride, the Crimson at tack in the early minutes did not resemble the kind of soccer Harvard fans have gotten accustomed to seeing during these past two seasons. Passes were flubbed, and some of the players forgot that they had teammates...
...polished young sailors. Time after time, Gretel II grasped for the advantage, only to be frustrated by the seamen aboard Intrepid. The fifth race was more of the same. Gretel II jumped off to an early lead, footing smartly in the soft, fluky winds. In a series of aggressive tacks, Picker overhauled the Aussies and rounded the first mark with Intrepid 44 sec. ahead. It was a lead he never relinquished-though by the fifth mark the desperate Aussies had shaved the advantage to 20 sec., or barely two boat lengths. Then Picker, reading the shifting wind perfectly, put Intrepid...
...tack the enemy around the country," the tape said...
...find it. The fourth race saw Intrepid leading at all five marks, but with a scant mile and a half to go, the wind shifted and died down-and so did Intrepid. Playing the light air superbly, Hardy came on strongly while Ficker belatedly tried to cover with a tack that left him well to leeward of the finish line. Gretel II squeaked across Intrepid's bow to win a startling comeback victory by 62 sec. At week's end, the race committee, which had packed its bags in anticipation of a 4-0 sweep by Intrepid, unpacked...