Word: tacking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...came last weekend, the Gandhiose effort was a bit of a flop. When his silent horde of 3,000 arrived outside the Ministry of Defense to squat on the cold pavement, the box formation of 400 bobbies perversely refused to touch a soul. When the Russell forces prepared to tack their anti-nuclear declarations to the Ministry door, the police talked them into using tape instead...
Last week Nkrumah changed his tack, decided that necessity is sometimes the mother of investment. To calm the fears of potential investors and save the miners' jobs, he offered to buy the stock in five marginal mines for $14.7 million, almost twice its value on the London Stock Exchange, presumably to make certain that the offer would be accepted. Within 24 hours, the value of the stocks jumped over 100%. The relieved companies hailed the offer as a uniquely civilized way to nationalize industry, were certain that their 40,000 stockholders would grab the offer...
...campaign, Candidate Quadros promised all things to all voters, right, left and center. Now Brazilians wondered what tack he would take in the cold war. In foreign affairs, Quadros denounced Communism as "the new imperialism." At the same time, he opened Brazil's arms "without prejudice, to all nations of the new world as well as to the ancient communities of Europe and Asia." The announcement left leeway for the wish-expressed by Quadros during a pre-election trip to Moscow-for relations with Russia that might help dispose of Brazil's 40 million bags of surplus coffee...
...seat Blackpool Opera House, the biggest English theater outside London, an expensive collection of British TV and variety stars was headed by Rock Cornish Singer Tommy Steele, earning $3,000 a week. "When it's Blackpool on the line for talent," says one showman, "agents automatically tack...
...drawn correspondents' wagons, get caught in a blistering crossfire. Plastic corpses-eight in grey, eight in blue-litter the battlefield; farmhouses burn; cannon balls seem to plop within inches of the customers. Crossfire is Freedomland's favorite device: the "Buccaneers" concession sends paying guests on a port tack between two fiercely battling pirate ships; and throughout the Wild West, Indians are forever blazing away at anything that moves, usually past the noses of tourists...