Word: slant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Clinton--or, more accurately, the Clinton team--is very clever to shift the American people's attention to scribblers, paparazzi and all the professionals who make their living off of buzz. Members of the media--involved in a business, not a nonprofit service--are always tempted to slant the story to further their own purposes. Consider, for example, that the person who encouraged Linda S. Tripp to bring Monica Lewinsky's story into the open was Lucianne Goldberg, a New York book agent. (Though her Republican sympathies no doubt had a large role in her desire to expose Clinton...
...want to interest the campus readership. Some articles will be explicitly just campus issues; others will be more international issues that try to take a campus slant," he said...
Flanker Joe Falzone ran a slant left across the middle of the field, but Yankoff read the route and stepped in front of Stambaugh's pass, taking it down the right sideline for an unimpeded score...
What seemed like the knockout punch came fiveplays later. From Harvard's 42-yard line,Stambaugh tried to find Falzone on a slant patternto his left. Senior safety Derek Yankoff read theplay perfectly, jumped in front of the receiver,and ran 64 yards down the right sideline, givingHarvard a 17-0 lead...
Vena promptly marched the Raiders backdownfield, connecting with Hill on a 22-yardcrossing pattern, then split end R. J. Gregory ona five-yard slant that Gregory broke upfield for36 yards to the Harvard two-yard line. The paircombined for 16 receptions and all of Vena's 254passing yards...