Word: tacks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...P.A.C. still stood by him. Styles tried to explain, somewhat lamely, that he had joined the Klan to expose it in the old New York Graphic. But this excuse fell through when it turned out he had never been on the Graphic's payroll. Then he took another tack. He pictured himself as a changed man, compared himself to Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black (whose onetime Klan connections almost kept him off the bench in 1937). Styles even wangled an endorsement from an editorial writer on the leading Negro newspaper...
...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...