Word: tacks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...question remains: Since negotiations necessarily imply concessions, what does either side, deeply committed as they are, really have to negotiate about? On that point, Khrushchev last week set off on a new tack. The whole German question, he cried, revolved around ''our fight for the recognition of our grandeur...
...year. "To recognize the possibilities of nuclear war in the missile age," said he, "without our citizens knowing what they should do and where they should go if bombs begin to fall, would be a failure of responsibility." To guard against such a failure, the President asked Congress to tack a $207.6 million appropriation on to the $104.2 million civil defense budget already requested earlier this year...
...summer's end, Hayley the Second gets her first look at Boston and mother, and Hayley the First sees her dad. But dad is about to marry a proprietary blonde (Joanna Barnes) who plans to send her stepdaughter-to-be off to school in Switzerland and, no doubt, tack chintz up all over pop's adobe ranch house. After some wonderfully Balkan sabotage, the errant parents are lured back together...
...Prime Minister, looked with considerable gloom at a crucial aspect of the African economy. "Let's face it," he said, "as an investment, Africa stinks." Reporting to his stockholders recently, a sober London businessman who presides over the biggest foreign enterprise in Africa took a more optimistic tack. "The African outlook," said Unilever Chairman George J. Cole, "is less dark than one might think...
...start of the crucial last race, the Crimson was first (18), with Navy and the Coast Guard tied one point behind. More than a minute late at the start, the varsity barreled over the line on a port tack, catching but falling to cover the Navy boat...