Word: tacking
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...this point, it is understood, President Johnson tried another tack: would Hanoi agree to talk merely about alking? Would they talk about the conditions of a cease-fire, or about limiting the war publicly or limiting it privately without admitting they were limiting it? The information here, not only from the Johnson Administration but from others that want negotiations, is that Hanoi said "no": there must be a promise of no bombing, unconditional negotiations meant no time limit on negoiations; if Washington would stop the bombing Hanoi would talk; no more than that. It was that simple...
...little Anguilla airstrip to make sure that they did not return. As occasional shooting continued to flare up in the torpid Caribbean nights, Bradshaw appealed to Britain to help quell the insurrection, but the foreign office said it was an internal matter. Last week the Anguillans tried a new tack: they declared their independence of Britain and asked to be put under U.S. rule. Hardly eager to field that small but hot potato, a State Department officer said that any request for a change in Anguilla's status would have to come from its mother country, Britain...
Different Tack. Nonetheless, Dirksen is determined to enact a constitutional amendment that would overrule at least part of the one-man, one-vote doctrine by permitting the states to select one house of their legislatures on a basis other than population. Twice, his efforts to push such amendments through the Senate were defeated by seven votes. Now the Illinois Senator is off on a different tack...
Peretz took a different tack, emphasizing that dissenters from American policy should not be afraid of the labels of "irresponsibility" and "lack of patriotism...
Questions from the audience took a different tack. One student asked how other beings would know if there was life on Earth. Aside from a few "trails of jets, wakes of ships, and logging swaths in Canada," even a near-by observer would not see any evidence of life, Sagan said...