Word: tacks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that the program contained too few genuinely mutual, share-the-load projects. In this election year, they are only too eager to fling the President's free-spender charges right back at him. They promised to cut Ike down to size by lopping off $1 billion, possibly to tack the saving onto the embattled U.S. defense budget. "There is too much money and too little change in administration," said Montana's Mike Mansfield, the Senate Democratic whip. "Where is the joint foreign aid effort with other free nations assuming their share of the burden?" Next...
...Congress would not okay appropriations for such a plane until MATS was no longer directly competitive with the private airlines. It was almost impossible for MATS to get any new equipment of any kind. Last year the House shot down a $66 million item that MATS tried to tack on its budget for the purchase of ten DC-8 jets...
...devout followers are joined in the no-dues, no-assets Frostbite Yacht Club. The club burgee is a polar bear standing on a cake of ice, his rump raised to the wind, and after the annual regatta, awards are passed out: i.e., Upholder of the Right of the Port Tack (to the skipper with the least regard for racing rules), Order of Sparta (to the racing committee that laid out the most uncomfortable course in the worst weather), Order of the Unwashed (provisional membership for those who have stayed out of the drink for five years, full membership if they...