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Word: slant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first half, apparently at will. The first came in the opening period on a run by Bill Hickey around right end for 35 yards. The next three scores came all in the second period, on passes from Walt Greeley to Hickey and Bob Switzer and a fullback slant off tackle for 30 yards by, Dave Cudhea...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dunster Upsets Eliot, 12-6 In Opener; Winthrop Wins | 10/11/1951 | See Source »

...fire ("I'm an honorary member"). And on his way to his office in Woodbridge Hall, he would still stop now & then to level his Leica, snap a camera shot of a student, a building or a professor. But once in his office, seated at his 18th Century slant-top desk, Whitney Griswold proved he knows how to govern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Steady Hand | 6/11/1951 | See Source »

...take a plain sight-seeing tour. You can try one with a music slant and go to music festivals. Or you can take a tour with an architecture slant and concentrate on looking at buildings and monuments...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Schemes For Cheap Travel Abound As Foreign Nations Lure Students | 3/29/1951 | See Source »

...shorts--"Hong Kong" and "More About Me"--complete the show at the Exeter. The former is a well-photographed travelogue, though it has a strong pro-British slant. "More About Me" is a very amusing five-minute affair. "written by George Bernard Shaw, directed by George Bernard Shaw, produced by George Bernard Shaw, and with a cast of George Bernard Shaw played by George Bernard Shaw." It affords Mr. Shaw an opportunity to "insult a wide audience and retain the pleasure of doing so himself, instead of hiring actors...

Author: By Peter K. Solmssen, | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/27/1951 | See Source »

...Assembly this week a cease-fire in Korea and maybe a demilitarized buffer zone between the U.N. and Communist forces. Rau had also received word from New Delhi that Mao and other Red bigwigs were in close conference with Indian Ambassador Kavalam Nadhava Panikkar, whose anti-Western slant pulls Indian policy towards "neutralism." Panikkar had reported that Peking would negotiate on two conditions: equality in conferences, which seemed to mean recognition by the U.S.; and discussion of all major Far Eastern problems, which seemed to mean acceptance of Communist demands for Korea and Formosa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Petition to Peking | 12/18/1950 | See Source »

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