Word: tacks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rather than staying with its competitors, the Crimson elected to tack away from the fleet. Harvard fell way back. Although they managed to pass two boats in the final legs, and finish seventh, it cost them the title...
...much on Safer-like shots, the kind of flaming action that ensures an appearance on the air at home. The military thinks that too many correspondents are out there for their "own personal aggrandizement," Huntley told a Variety reporter recently. ABC's Howard K. Smith took the same tack when he returned from a recent visit to Viet Nam. During the Buddhist demonstrations, he said, "television gave the impression that the whole country was rioting, instead of 2,000 out of 17 million." Television, he complained, "still gives the impression that it is an American war out there...
Taking an entirely different tack from the Rockefeller men, Michigan State University researchers have at tacked both parts of the food problem at once. Borrowing the methods and materials of highway builders, they have learned to lay down underground strips of asphalt that literally pave the way for richer crops of all varieties...
Scene: a junk-filled empty lot near London's seedy Portobello Road. Rain clouds. Children swinging from a rope tied to a tree. A crowd of corduroy jackets and miniskirts respectfully watches a German painter named Wer ner Schreib tack a huge picture of Ludwig Erhard to an easel, then set it afire...
Many clerics, unshaken in their belief that racial justice is a spiritual as well as a social problem, have taken a new and softer tack. In the face of congregational hostility, they have come to recognize that white fears about black power are as legitimate as Negro yearnings for a place in the sun. Changing a congregation's mind, says the Rev. Herbert Davis, a United Church of Christ minister from Chicago, "is not like a Texas roundup, where you beat hell out of the cattle." Recognizing that no word is better than a wrong word, many have abandoned...