Word: tacks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While Geneva Gastons waited for facts, figures, and brass-tack concessions, delegates aired a show-me attitude toward U.S. willingness to buy from the world as much as she sold to the world. Dr. J. E. Holloway, head of the delegation from the Union of South Africa, was hopeful but skeptical. Said he: "[America] will, I hope, forgive us some little anxiety. She stands at the crossroads where her traditional antipathy to the free flow of international trade diverges from her new role as world leader. She seems to stand there in vacillating acceptance of her eminent and high destiny...
...getting late and Miss Sulzberger took another tack. She called Malcolm Glendinning, managing editor of the Spokane (Wash.) Spokesman-Review, for which King had been a columnist and editorial writer, and told him her problem. That night he called back to say that a search of the paper's files had revealed nothing. "By the way," he added, "are you sure Stoddard King wrote...
...state-controlled education inevitably revolves about the issue regarded as most crucial: the possibility of control accompanying Federal aid. Opponents of such subsidization point to the unavoidable and, they imply, intolerable centralized control of education that would follow. Advocates of such aid, on the other hand, generally take the tack that Federal control is not at all inevitable, and, in fact, is most unlikely because of our governmental nature and history. Left unclarified and largely untouched are the questions: would Federal control of education really be harmful; is there anything good to be said...
...joined the party in the fevered days of 1918. They worked together. When Ruth, then a bundle of sex appeal and intellectual fire, went to Berlin, Gerhart followed. She became a leader of the German Communist Party, and a member of the Reichstag. But Gerhart took a different ideological tack, began to covet power for himself. He applauded when Ruth was banished from the party by the Stalinist clique. Then he tried to undermine Ernst Thaelmann, Stalin's favorite in Germany. He failed, was summoned to Moscow. He escaped liquidation by denouncing friends who were out of favor...
...Hard Tack. In Milan, Italy, people got worried about their bread's strange texture, learned that hard-up bakers had stretched flour rations with marble dust...