Word: tacking
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...second offensive started early is the third period when Cowen again broke loose for a 40 yard sprint down to the B.C. 27. A. Navin to Coulson pass was ruled complete due to interference Navin battered through the B.C. tack's to the 7. Cowen promptly plunged over for the score. The extra point was added by Garrity...
...Shippee shenoddy," said the linguist, trying a new tack. I asked him what he was saying now. He said...
Mississippi, proud of its pleasant way of life-which has depended for more than a century on Negro labor-fretted and fumed at doing the hard work. But Mississippians continued to tack up bigger & bolder Jim Crow signs. There was no pause in the steady run of "incidents" between white civilians and Negro soldiers at the state's 36 military establishments. Politicians, bitter at the New Deal for "pampering" the colored folks, went right on orating in favor of white supremacy. The Grenada County Weekly editorialized: "The good darkies of the South should remember that, at the best, Eleanor...
...Alexander is indifferent to heat, cold, rain, dust, danger and food. This convenient oblivion enables him to concentrate on tactics and strategy and a quiet craze for physical fitness in his troops. No matter how eccentric his dress, he usually looks neat as a pin and sharp as a tack...
...Inconstant Supply. But how to meet this demand without interruption, befuddled Selective Service had not yet firmly decided. This week, after stern threats to draft every eligible man, regardless of family status (and of many formerly solid claims to occupational exemption), S.S. changed its tack again...