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Word: tacks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...assumption behind compulsory national service is that the battery of institutions which currently educates and indoctrinates young Americans turns out defective products. A way must be found to produce better systems, and that way, in typically American style, is to tack yet another institution atop the old ones...

Author: By Charles F. Sabel, | Title: Draft Debate | 12/17/1966 | See Source »

Another sophomore, Bob Panoff, debuts as a heavyweight against Phil Corell. Last year Crimson heavyweight Tack Chace had to win the final match to preserve what became a 19-13 Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wrestlers Meet Rough Diplomats | 12/10/1966 | See Source »

...sophomores, the big man in many ways is heavyweight Bob Panoff, who must fill the size 15 shoes of talented--but graduated--Tack Chace. It's Panoff's job, and he may be called upon to deliver winning points in tight meets...

Author: By Glenn A. Padnick, | Title: Matmen Open 'Juggling Act' Season Today | 12/2/1966 | See Source »

Question of Conscience? Paul thus rejected, for the present at least, the recommendations submitted last June by his pontifical commission on birth control. A majority of the commission, headed by seven cardinals, proposed that the church take a new tack in its theology of marriage that would sidestep the natural-law approach of Pius XI and Pius XII. Under their norms, any means of birth control apart from the rhythm method and sexual abstinence was said to violate God's inflexible rules for human behavior by frustrating the principal purpose of the sex act, procreation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roman Catholics: Contraception? Not Yet | 11/18/1966 | See Source »

...with the Army defense on the play that set up Notre Dame's first touchdown; Seymour simply took two defenders up in the air with him, came down with the ball all to himself for a 19-yd. gain. North Carolina's Tar Heels tried a new tack altogether: absolutely blanket Seymour and hang the cost. It got pretty expensive. With Jim keeping three North Carolina defenders busy on one side of the field, the Irish gleefully ran up and down the other side and scored two quick touchdowns. The Tar Heels gave up. They took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: College Football: Babes in Wonderland | 10/28/1966 | See Source »

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