Word: tacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week, his greatest adversary eliminated, the Mufti schemed to wipe out his adversary's country itself. He met secretly in Cairo's Semiramis Hotel with the Foreign Ministers of Egypt and Saudi Arabia, both oldtime opponents of Abdullah and the British. They agreed on a plan to tack Jordan on to a Greater Syria. In this way they would put a finish...
...diamond man [plane in last position in the formation] was burning. His No. 3 engine was on fire. We turned out to the coast to cover him, and he pulled under us. Later, the boys saw chutes come out of the 29 below. The MIGs kept pressing the at tack. We could feel shudders as they passed under...
Columbia's Dr. Paul H. Hoch tells of his group, which took a different tack. They tried to spare the long white fibers, and actually cut out a piece of the brain's grey matter, catching only a few white fibers. Usually they took out about an ounce on each side, in an operation called a topectomy...
Four skippers combined Sunday to cop the Boston Dinghy Club Cup from an M.I.T. team which was considered practically invincible in its own Basin. The coup de grace was a canny port tack by Frank Scully at the start of the final race. The move won the race for Harvard and overcome M.I.T.'s three point lead...
...Some Things Are Unavoidable." Senator George went on to a new tack. Those very things-the Greek-Turkish aid program, the European Recovery Program and North Atlantic alliance-all involved the possibility of provoking Russia to war. "We took ... a lot [of] calculated risks ... It doesn't seem to me that we are required to be certain . . . that Soviet Russia will not come...