Word: slant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shot, searches after a retreating plane, and at last connects. The plane comes down streaming flame. Another, that seems unhit, comes abruptly to pieces in midair. A heavy suicide plane with one wing gone, hurtles over & over with sickly oafishness as it falls. Another swoops in a long, low slant, just clears the heads of the crew, chops into the water like a spent dart: U.S. sailors, with the bemused fixity of men narrowly escaped from death, crane their necks like children to watch its explosion...
Married. Merle Oberon. 34, nacreous, slant-eyed cinemactress ; and Lucien Keith Ballard, 37, Hollywood cameraman; both for the second time; by double, proxy in Juarez, Mexico...
...stupid. What I mean is, it's going against human nature. . . . After all we are supposed to educate these Germans back to be normal citizens, and this way we're just raising a barrier between us and them." "Listen," said the other soldier, "you got the wrong slant. All a soldier wants is a little fun. The order doesn't seem to make sense but I can see some reason for it. ... We've got to teach these Germans that we're the boss now, and if you go around fraternizing then they have influence...
...agent (Regis Toomey) helps out by impersonating a crooked Canal Zone sergeant who hands Tracy a complete set of obsolete plans; another (Nancy Kelly) saves Tracy's life at the cost of her own. These and other complications wind through a labyrinth of hidden dictaphones, hideous tortures, sinister slant eyes, vicious voices...
...newspaperman cited numerous instances of slanting stories by organs of information such as the New York Times and the Associated Press which are "usually considered pretty impartial." He pointed to the conservative slant given to stories on war profits, strikes, renegotiation of war contracts, and the recent removal of Jesse Jones as Secretary of Commerce in favor of ex-Vice President Henry A. Wallace...