Word: tacking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When wartime priorities strained the world's air transport to the limit, we took another tack. Photographs of the pages in a whole issue of TIME took up less plane space than a paperbacked detective story. So we flew to distant points film positives of our pages, from which local presses could print copies for quick delivery to civilians and to allied forces on nearby fronts. At war's peak, we were printing some 834,000 overseas copies at 19 places for distribution to 180 countries and possessions. Among the 19: Bogotá, Sao Paulo, Mexico City, Buenos...
...Nearby lived Novelist Laura E. Richards (Captain January). In this neighborhood, young Tasker developed a critical eye and a sensitive ear at about the same rate that he speeded up his tennis game. He also played center on the high-school football team, got stuck with a durable nickname, "Tack...
...last week. He ripped out the dollars & cents price ceilings which he had erected over thousands of food items in his freeze order of Jan. 26. For them he substituted a complex system whereby the Office of Price Stabilization regulates the percentage markups which retail grocers and wholesalers may tack on to the cost of goods. No one, not even tubby Mike Di Salle, is sure how the new order which becomes obligatory on April 30, will affect retail food prices. But Mike is optimistic. Said he last week: "We are sure that there will be more decreases than increases...
NATO. Washington, while warmly praising Turkish bravery in Korea, refused to commit itself. Last week the Turks tried another tack. Turkey's Ambassador in Washington formally invited the U.S. to join the British-French-Turkish mutual-assistance pact of 1939, which obliges the three nations to "lend all aid and assistance in their power" in case one is attacked...
Eleven years later, Gene bolted for Amarillo and started his own paper. He gave his editors free rein, spent most of his time making Old Tack the independent character Gene Howe wanted to be. In his battered Stetsons, his rumpled-and expensive-suits, he soon mastered the look of Texas, then acquired the substance by buying a 15,000-acre cattle ranch and a herd of Herefords. But it was not until Texas mothers and fathers began naming their children "Gene Howe" and cowhands took to calling their ponies Old Tack that he knew, for sure, he had arrived...