Word: tacking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...must tack an ending onto this piece, it should say that the activities of the CFIA, if not outrightly nefarious, are sufficiently questionable and criticizable to warrant greater awareness and attention; that, however unqualified and abrasive the attacks by student critics on the Center in the past may have been, those critics are more than justified in stating that the CFIA, far from being a haven of disinterested academic research, is a distinctly political issue...
...bald man, he resembles the thin man's Mr. Clean only in looks. Unlike some skippers, he does not impose a curfew on his young crew, nor does he lead them in calisthenics. Even so, he had his charges outhustling the more experienced Valiant hands on nearly every tack. "Though we aren't No. 2 any more," says Picker, "we still have to try harder to uphold the tradition of Intrepid...
...American Shakespeare Festival production of Othello in Stratford, Conn., perpetuates a tradition in which the play and its hero shrink with each successive revival. Moses Gunn and his director Michael Kahn proceed along the familiar tack that Othello is good, loving, noble, trusting and innocent until jealousy and grief tear him asunder. Gunn conveys all of these qualities admirably. His stage presence is commanding and his line delivery persuasive, though it is somewhat mannered when he elongates single words for emphasis...
...girl with such a ???lly be so desirable?" he asks in the poem ???, Loewinsohn andc," then dubs the Lady. "Venus ???usseldorf, curvilinear, oviform," For an epi??? to the last group of poems in the book ???ok of Ayres," after Thomas Campion). he ???unces. "I need to take a new tack./ and sit on it." ??? success of this kind of poem depends entirely ??? quality of the surprise. Sometimes the sur??? is a little...
Laurson chose top in the second stanza and managed to keep Faller on the mat throughout the period. Faller unwisely decided on a similar tack in the final period, and time became a vital factor...