Word: tacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Strohmeier, Bethlehem Steelman and member of the New Bedford, Mass. Yacht Club, "by following two simple rules: when in doubt go to westward, otherwise sail on the tack that will take you straight to Bermuda." Malay began by standing off on the port tack until she was nearly 45 miles west of the rhumb line, a straight-line course to St. David's Head. For a day she drifted in the Gulf Stream, while the crew fished and swam. Out of the stream, Malay worked westward again before she came about on the starboard tack for the last long...
...almost as soon as the headlines appeared, the Democrats proved that they didn't really mean it. When Chairman Dan Reed of the House Ways & Means Committee called the one-year bill up in the House, the Democrats made no effort to tack on a three-year amendment...
...such combat work horses as World War II's twin-engine A26 (now B26) and Korea's single-engine Navy AD Skyraider. For years Heinemann has been arguing that U.S. planes are too heavy, too expensive and too complicated. They are victims of what he calls "tack-hammer engineering-tacking extra things onto airplanes that, with a little forethought, could have been avoided...
...Stall 2 of the paddock, Owner Vanderbilt and Trainer Winfrey talk casually with visitors. The tack is carried in, and as Winfrey pulls tight the cinch belt the Dancer rears. The crowd gasps, but the horse, icy calm again in a moment, is saddled and led to the walking ring. Instructions to Guerin are simple: "Ride him with confidence...
Bazy also tried another tack. She called a long list of potential backers, including such conservative millionaires as Sears, Roebuck's Chairman General Robert Wood, ex-Ambassador to England Joseph Kennedy, and Texas Oilmen H. L. Hunt, Sid Richardson, Hugh Roy Cullen and Clint Murchison. Before her 45 hours were up, she had pledges for about $4,000,000, but when she asked the colonel for time to raise more, he said "No, no, no." The colonel was determined to sell to Meyer because he respected him as a professional newspaperman. The colonel did not want to sell...