Word: tacked
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...host of an IHSA competition must provide 25 horses in full tack for all the riders representing the 12 schools in the region. On Saturday, Harvard--in conjunction with the Ascot Club--provided 173 riders with 27 schooling horses, and also hired a judge for the event...
Polanyi worked independently to achieve the same end. He took a different tack, using the infrared emissions of newly formed molecules to measure the energy transfer that individual molecules undergo when in chemical reactions...
...Lauren says. Instead he tends his ranch, drives a collection of antique race cars, and jogs three or four miles each morning. Lauren's cultural interests tend to mirror his professional instincts. Last year he spent a reported $350,000 to sponsor an acclaimed historical exposition of riding tack and apparel, called "Man and the Horse," at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Though he professes to be nonpolitical, Lauren openly supported Democratic Hopeful Gary Hart during the 1984 presidential campaign...
...reaching reforms at a provincial National Party congress in Durban. When Botha's "manifesto for the future" proved to be largely a manifesto for more of the same, an international outcry ensued. Last week, as Botha returned to Durban to address a full party congress, officials tried a different tack, this one designed to thwart untoward expectations. One administrator warned foreign correspondents, "This speech is not for you. This is a speech for South Africans." Given the advance billing, it was hard to be disappointed...
Like her predecessors, Burrows will keep the Army on a conservative tack. The U.S. branch was a founder of the USO but resigned from the group in 1976 when it began serving alcohol to soldiers. In 1981 the Army quit the World Council of Churches after it awarded welfare grants to guerrilla organizations that eventually overthrew the white minority regime in Rhodesia. The Army found aid for violent groups inappropriate...