Word: tacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...string of other firsts followed. In 1945, as housing boomed, Meredith turned National Life to the package mortgage, permitting cash-short house buyers to tack appliances onto the house purchase price. An estimated half the mortgages written are now package mortgages...
Faced with the task of making his voice heard over the thunder of events in the Middle East and Hungary, he lashed out with mounting violence against the President and his Administration. The at tack reached its peak on the day before the election in Minneapolis and again that night in Boston. Harshly, he charged that Dwight Eisenhower neither knows nor cares what goes on about him in Washington, that he "holds forth in the pulpit while his choirboys sneak around back alleys with sandbags." He described Richard Nixon's campaign role as that...
...calls. Coupled with one or two other ideas we should be able to cut our communications bill by 50%." The memo went on to outline a complicated "initial" code. Trucker John Doe, for example, would call the home office collect from Phoenix, Ariz., give his real last name and tack on fake initials, saying that "E. K. Doe is calling." The King dispatcher would thus know it was Doe, that he had reached Phoenix, and from the initials E. K., that his truck was empty. Then, naturally, the dispatcher would refuse to accept the call...
Miners will get a pay raise of $1.20 a day, bringing their basic daily wage to $21.45. Next April the industry will tack on another 80?, bringing the total package, with fringe benefits, to $2.40 more a day and miners' daily wages to $22.25. All told, it would add close to 60? per ton to the industry's cost of mining coal, and make another round of price increases inevitable. Appalachian Coals Inc., marketing agent for southern producers handling 25 million tons annually, started it off by hiking soft coal prices...
...geisha had hitched her fortunes to a falling star. Though Japan won the war, the peace terms were unpopular, and the press reviled Katsura and his "concubine." With rioters in the streets, O-Koi had the presence of mind to tack a FOR RENT sign on her house, and hid out in a back room. The lovers were reunited before Katsura's death, and O-Koi later entered a Buddhist nunnery, where she died after the end of World...