Word: tacks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...WOULDN'T THINK someone who played that position in a campaign--the tack on the other candidates' seats--would sneak out so cravenly. The latest assertion making its way through the Massachusetts political rumor mill is that Tip O'Neill, who supports Shannon, pressured Markey to quit. That seems out of character for Tip, but if Markey is re-elected and starts receiving favors from the high command, it might be worth redirecting our present scorn...
April 8--Three hundred sympathizers march at midnight to Pusey's house, and tack a list of six demands to his door. The demands include the termination of all ROTC contracts and their replacement with Harvard scholarships; no further Harvard expansion in Cambridge without the approval of two-thirds of the displaced tenants and adequate alternative housing; and immediate discussions to set up a Black studies program...
...DEMOCRATS like to shoot themselves in the feet? Every four years, the same questions are raised by the faithfuls as to what the party should stand for and what us the proper tack to beat the Republicans. And every four years--be it 1968, 1972, 1976, or 1980--the party engages in a massive internal bloodletting. Not that the questions members beat each other over the head with aren't significant. They are, Who is the truer liberal? Who is the most electable in the November run-off? Democrats have rightly had to struggle among themselves to choose between...
Taking the opposite tack, Sherry Gamble of Arsenic and Old Lace started out two years ago selling only black costumes: Victorian dresses and capes, many heavily decorated with ribbon and jet beads. Now she has branched out to include other colors and styles up through the '50s, though black still predominates in a shop filled with Victorian furniture and witchcrafty decor...
...months, President Reagan has used his vaunted skills as a communicator to describe the Marine deployment in Lebanon as a sign of U.S. credibility and steadfastness in that country and throughout the Middle East. But in taking that tack, the President also managed to raise the political and diplomatic stakes surrounding any change in U.S. dispositions in Lebanon. The more that Reagan insisted on the importance of the Marine presence, the more he courted the risk that a tactical change in Lebanon would appear as a major U.S. defeat, even in response to circumstances that were not of U.S. making...