Word: tacks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TACK C. BUCKLE Huntingdon...
...aimed at the overthrow of Argentina's Strong Man Juan Perón. Last week Washington policy-makers knew where that policy had got them: 1) Argentines, in free elections, apparently had chosen Juan Perón their President; 2) the U.S. would have to try a new tack...
...enough to be her father, he is not bold enough to ask for her hand. While his neighbors' tongues wag and his family's hearts sink, he squires the unsuspecting young lady to carnivals and Chinese restaurants, strains his eyes going without glasses, sprains his tack showing off as a wrestler. After much stewing, he sends the girl away. After much scene-stretching, she comes back...
Impetus for yesterday's Town-Gown at- tack on the problem was furnished by the passage by the state legislature of a veterans housing bill giving cities and towns the right to acquire "tracts of land which are entirely, or almost, unoccupied by buildings," by right of eminent domain, to be used for housing "of a temporary nature," for a period not to exceed five years...
...clutches of Boer War imperialists. As chairman of Daily News, Ltd., Quaker Cadbury, a publisher without a peerage, leaves its operations to a devoutly Liberal triumvirate: Sir Walter Layton, quondam Cambridge don who once edited the Economist; pedantic, competent Editor (since 1936) Gerald Barry, a Saturday Review alumnus, and tack-sharp Robin J. Cruikshank, 47, a big, curly-haired six-footer who is regarded the top newspaperman...