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Word: tacks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jews of New York are working hand in hand. . . . This is a damnable, Communist, poisonous piece of legislation." When "The Man" Bilbo finally tired, he was spelled by Mississippi's junior Senator, James Oliver Eastland, who can "coon-shout" with the best of them. He took another tack: "We are dealing with an inferior race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rule by Demagogues | 7/9/1945 | See Source »

...committee lawyers achieved one fine clause: ". . . to practice tolerance and live together in peace with one another as good neighbors." But their ending would disgrace the corporate charter of a tack factory. They wrote that "We, the peoples" had spoken at San Francisco through "representatives . . . who have exhibited their full powers found to be in good and due form...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONFERENCES: Good and Due Form | 7/9/1945 | See Source »

July 2-At dawn visited the place where my friend lay dead with a bayonet wound in his head. Covered him with grass and leaves. Upon returning ate a meal of hard tack and pickled prunes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Emperor's Flower Petals | 4/9/1945 | See Source »

...Tack Attack. In Chicago, Mrs. Ruth Yost, suing for divorce, told the judge that her husband scattered thumbtacks, points up, outside their bedroom door, so she would step on them in the morning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 26, 1945 | 3/26/1945 | See Source »

...remarkable that the personnel produces as good quality products as they do, with the equipment and methods of manufacture in vogue. . . . Due to rising costs, with no relief from OPA . . . about 60% of the cut tack sales were made at a loss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: The Roof Leaks | 3/19/1945 | See Source »

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