Word: tacks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moment he announced his candidacy for Ohio's at-large congressional seat, Republican Robert Taft Jr., 45, let everyone know that he was anti-Kennedy. Displaying an inherited disdain for expensive, expansive government, he attacked President Kennedy for fiscal irresponsibility, "strongarm methods'' and trying to tack "Government controls onto all his programs." Last week, after easily winning his party's nomination. Taft discovered that he would have to keep right on being anti-Kennedy. For Ohio Democrats, to everyone's surprise, nominated an obscure Cleveland real estate dealer whose main political asset is his name...
...Algiers and Oran, the Secret Army has used every conceivable method of murder, killing 1,000 Moslems since the ceasefire, with the avowed purpose of provoking Moslem mobs into taking revenge and unleashing a racial war. So far, the terrorists have failed. Last week the frustrated S.A.O. tried another tack: its gunmen sauntered down the cities' streets shooting Moslem women and young girls-killing 18 and wounding...
...Saturday morning Sullivan sailed the large, ugly boat down the Charles and tack to the shipyards where, he told the CRIMSON last night, it is now "undergoing extensive renovations...
...victory was not all gain for Kennedy by any means. The ferocity of his at tack on steel alienated and angered many a businessman who had come to believe that John F. Kennedy was not really hos tile to business after all. And by crushing steel in the name of economic stability, Kennedy had deprived himself of a perfect rationale for any future inflation. As it is, Kennedy's own governmental spending may well create an inflationary spiral. And whomever or whatever Kennedy blames for that, it certainly cannot be Roger Blough...
...Rumania's Transylvanian Alps 35 miles from Bucharest, Ploesti was called by Winston Churchill "the taproot of German might." From its oil refineries came one-third of the aviation gasoline, benzine and lubricants that kept Adolf Hitler's military machine running. To protect Ploesti from air at tack, the Germans had made it into a colossal land battleship. A ring of heavy antiaircraft guns formed a perimeter around the refineries that circled the city; lighter flak guns were concealed in hay stacks and groves, mounted on factories, bridges, water towers and church steeples on the target approaches. Crack...