Word: tacks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Just as U.S. servicemen and college students tack pictures of Raquel Welch or travel posters on their walls, so merchants and tradesmen in 18th and 19th century Japan delighted in cheap, mass-produced wood-block prints, or hanga. These genre pictures showed well-known actors or courtesans of the day, picturesque views of Mount Fuji and picaresque travel scenes. They were known as ukiyo-e, literally "pictures of the floating world," because to devout Buddhists everyday existence was a transient stage in man's journey to nirvana. Yet the lasting charm and skill with which the Japanese craftsmen imbued...
...estimated 300 anti-ROTC demonstrators forced their way onto the grounds of President Pusey's Quincy Street house at midnight yesterday to tack onto Pusey's front door a list of six demands concerning ROTC and Harvard's relations with local communities...
...divergent bodies of opinion within Nixon's inner circle-at least on Viet Nam and ABM systems-Laird and Rogers probably exemplify them. The President, still playing for time, has so far kept to a cautious middle course. But sooner or later he may have to choose one tack over the other...
When the specter of girl jockeys first reared its comely head, the boys in the tack room sneered in their silks. "If I can't outride a girl," growled one jockey, "I'll send my wife out here to take my place." "What's next?" asked an other. "Topless go-go riders...
...simply could not handle 1,000 Ibs. of race horse charging through the pack. There are hazards enough, they pointed out, without girl jockeys falling all over the track. But gradually, after several attempts to "boycott the broads," the jockeys relented, reckoning that the girls would hang up their tack once they were exposed to the grueling grind of racing for pay. That was nearly two months ago. Now there are five girl jockeys racing at parimutuel flat tracks across the U.S., and they are confidently grabbing for the rail position...