Word: tacks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Educationally, Columbia follows the same tack. Almost the entire first two years of a student's program are prescribed for him in the form of required two-year courses entitled Contemporary Civilization and Humanities--shades of GE. These courses are given by top men from the Social Sciences and Humanities departments. The Contemporary Civilization course was first given in 1919, thus antedating Harvard's similar General Education courses by 27 years. The Humanities course was first given...
...other lads, drinking, gossiping and partying with them and staying at the same hotels. Last week, after each day's session, the Commies went off by themselves to their own hangouts. For parliamentary maneuvers, they had devised a set of hand signals like those used by the "tick tack men" (gamblers' signalmen) at British race tracks...
...favor of the W.F.T.U. itself. Deakin's presidency represents British labor's hope of rescuing the W.F.T.U. from Red domination. That hope, Deakin roared, has gone glimmering. He said that the W.F.T.U. was becoming a tool of Soviet foreign policy. The congress boomed approval, the tick tack men flickered like lizards along the wall, and the Communist motion was defeated...
Literary Trapezeman William Saroyan, high-flying apostle of man's humanity to man, was on the upswing again: after thinking it over for three days, his wife had decided to tack a Saroyan ending on to the whole episode, dropped her divorce suit...
Chiefly responsible for this new diplomatic tack was 44-year-old Paul Daniels, the State Department's Director for American Republic Affairs. From long experience, Daniels had concluded that the policy of ignoring de facto governments was silly: it was a relic of the days of kingdoms and duchies; in today's world, nonrecognition, or the threat of it, frightened no one. Moreover, recognition or no, trade and communication between nations always seemed to continue; it was better to have an ambassador on hand to supervise them...