Word: tacks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Capital newshawks had not dug up the story, Topeka, Kans. would have had the shock of its life on Armistice Day. With their secret out, the cavalry at Fort Riley took a new tack, sent the city an ultimatum: "Citizens of Topeka . . . your city is doomed! We will move in and capture it and its people today. . . . Resistance is futile...
...Angeles posse is the most gaudily outfitted. Each of its 50 members has five different changes of costume ranging from informal Western shirts and whipcord trousers to elaborate gold-trimmed Spanish outfits, must have at least one silver-mounted saddle and other tack costing anywhere from $2,000 to $10,000 each...
...President shifts his tack, says he hopes "an entering wedge for the practice of complete freedom of religion [in Russia] is definitely on the way." President Luther Allan Weigle of the Federal Council of Churches attacks the weasel wording of the Soviet Government, says it "supports atheism as the accepted philosophy of the State." Monsignor Michael J. Ready, general secretary of the National Catholic Welfare Conference, is closeted with the President for 45 minutes...
...began by clearly, carefully outlining the Greer incident: the Greer was unmistakably a U.S. ship, was attacked by the Nazi submarine in waters declared by the U.S. to be "waters of self-defense." The at tack, he said, was either a deliberate Nazi attempt to sink a U.S. warship, or "even more outrageous," an attack from undersea on an unidentified surface boat, indicating a policy of indiscriminate, unrestricted submarine warfare. Said the President: "This was piracy." But this attack and the other attacks were, he continued, part of a pattern, a Nazi design to abolish freedom of the seas...
Many a public health authority thought that Dr. Bundesen's Blitzkrieg of publicity might stamp out Chicago syphilis by 1945. Besides wholesale blood-testing, Dr. Bundesen plans to hound every person who has a venereal disease into hospitals. He also threatened to tack up red quarantine posters on houses of prostitution where the inmates resist treatment. Every person who crosses the threshold of such a quarantined house will be liable to a fine of $200 and six months in jail...