Word: kilter
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...been the mysterious and stubborn lung infection, and an immediate cause of her fever. Most of the dozens of doctors called in on the case agreed that in patients of Mrs. Roosevelt's age, it is not unusual to find the blood-forming mechanism out of kilter in some obscure fashion. And in anybody as determined to keep going as she was, it was not surprising that TB germs (which nearly everybody carries around at times without getting sick) were able to multiply and damage the lungs...
...working round the clock. The High Dam is not supposed to be finished till 1968, and the entire project till 1970, but there is a tight schedule for the completion of successive stages, and if any one were to be delayed, the whole plan would be thrown out of kilter...
Though the slave markets are long gone, flicker epilepsy has returned-a byproduct of modern electronics. The jittering of an out-of-kilter picture tube can cause severe epileptic seizures. In the past two years, two British doctors have seen 14 children with epileptic seizures induced by television flicker. The condition, they think, is more common than most physicians realize. Most striking is the fact that nine of the 14 patients had convulsions only while watching TV; only five of them were known to be susceptible because they had had similar attacks in other circumstances...
...million program for shelter construction in community buildings. His entire 1963 defense budget assumes "that the special measures associated with [the Berlin] crisis will terminate at the beginning of that fiscal year"-an optimistic estimate that, if it proves wrong, could throw the whole budget out of kilter...
...predecessor. The 280-lb., drum-shaped satellite, spangled with 9,260 solar cells, went into a nearly circular orbit about 400 miles above the earth. All except one of its instruments worked fine; only the wide-angle TV camera for photographing large-scale cloud cover was out of kilter...