Word: tacks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will welcome complaints, but for the present, at least, there should be neither a Government nor a civilian Gestapo. Canada has miraculously managed to police its stores by volunteer groups of women, each noting down prices and violations in "Queen Elizabeth books." But the U.S. will try another tack. In Chicago, OPAdministrator Michael Mulcahy hastily discouraged women who offered to snoop...
...after Pearl Harbor, he changed tack, declared: "But we will get better and stronger every day, and we will not have to get very good and very strong to knock the everlasting daylights out of Japan...
...newly created Lord Wedgwood, potteries scion and for 35 years a stanchly liberal M.P., went off on another tack. "This overemphasized question of slavery! One can go into a sheik's tent in the [British-controlled] Jordan valley and have one's coffee served by a black slave. Don't let us be too virtuous about these things." What worried Lord Wedgwood was the fact Britain had not seized Italian property in Ethiopia outright...
...Brother Gaston is a spokesman for the W.C.T.U., the Anti-Saloon League and some 100 other temperance societies. He has kneeling space in the House Office Building by permission of his good friend Ulysses S. Guyer, dry Congressman from dry Kansas, who rises occasionally on the House floor to tack (so far, in vain) a prohibition joker on to other legislation...
...months ago President Quezon said: "Should the United States enter the war, the Philippines should follow her and fight by her side ... for the cause for which America would fight is our own cause." Last week war got so close that he exploded. This week he hastened to change tack, announced: "There can never be any question as to my absolute loyalty. . . . President Roosevelt knows that he can count on me and my Government and my people to the bitterest...