Word: tacking
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...next hour, the three boys troop around the stable to tack the horses. They wrap protective bandages around the ponies’ fore legs, attach the bridles, lay out saddle blankets, and braid the tails to make room for back swings. Nick jumps onto a golf cart with a large rake attached to the back, and the vehicle wheezes and rattles across the indoor arena in sweeping symmetrical arcs to smooth the sand, or “footing,” which is looser than most other indoor fields. Mid-way, Nick gets out of the car to swiftly scoop...
...limping with doubt. But I kept to my stride. And soon he caught up.It wasn’t long before we fell into some sort of rhythm. By the time we’d passed those first few pews, we’d agreed on a kind of swaying tack that shuffled us across the wood. The shuffling became a skimming and that gave me enough of a gliding feel to not slow when I heard, from the Negro section, some Hallelujahs and a Holy Deliverer. I’m sure the cries were cried for The Creator but Ezekiel...
...caught on in other major cities, like Los Angeles. Closer to home, Kickass Cupcakes in Somerville’s Davis Square opened in 2007, and many Boston bakeries offer gourmet twists on the childhood favorite. Forrester said that while her product was influenced by Magnolia, Sweet takes a different tack. “Magnolia has a little bit more of a home-baked feel,” she said. “Our cakes are more stylized.” Sweet’s daily menu will include the requisite chocolate and vanilla cupcakes along with seasonal and specialty flavors...
...thing Dodd has done of late is tack hard to populism. He has held hearings on credit-card abuses and introduced stringent legislation to prevent companies from luring consumers into dangerous amounts of debt. Last October, Senate majority leader Harry Reid took the unusual move of overriding a Democratic hold on a bill after Dodd tried to block an extension of President George W. Bush's warrantless wiretapping powers over concerns from the left about granting telecom giants retroactive immunity for working with the Administration. Most notably, Dodd, against the wishes of the White House, slipped into the stimulus bill...
...After a Yale three, Kenyi gets to the line on a ticky-tack foul. Yet another Crimson FT miss. Harvard 25, Yale...