Word: tacking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Casual. Then abruptly he went off on another tack and got into trouble. "It would be almost as bad as Seven Days in May," he said, referring to the novel in which the military seizes power. "You can conjure a situation where there is another oil embargo and people in this country are not only inconvenienced and uncomfortable, but suffer. They get tough-minded enough to set down the Jewish influence in this country and break that lobby...
...Another tack--perhaps it was that fateful final quarter...
...blood, is going all-volunteer despite the difficulty. The hospital sought donations from hospital staffers and then turned to the families of obstetrics patients, who rarely need blood transfusions as a result of childbirth. Doctors at Chicago's University of Illinois Hospital tried a different tack. Rejecting the idea of bloodmobiles ("They're like Vikings pillaging rural neighborhoods and carting the blood back to the city"), Dr. H.J. Rothenberg II obtained a list of the university's 23,000 students, then used a computer system to send them birthday greetings that asked for a blood donation...
However, an aide motioned to the lawyer and he quickly dropped that tack of the argument...
Vienna-born Author Marek takes the biographical tack in The Eagles Die, concentrating upon Franz Joseph and Empress Elisabeth, obviously hoping that it might do for Habsburg Austria what Nicholas and Alexandra did for Romanov Russia. He only partly succeeds, mainly because his principal characters were intensely private, imperial strangers both to their subjects and to each other...