Word: slant
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...employees to take the strain off an understaffed system, revamped maintenance, scheduling and reservations. To point up the changes, Northeast is advertising its "Yellow-birds," a Raymond Loewy inspiration. Somewhat like Braniff planes, North-cast's aircraft now are white from nose tip back along the fuselage, slant into canary yellow on the after-belly as well as the tail and wings...
Will Steven Armstrong's basic set has a backdrop with Roman porticos painted on it, in front of which two monumental staircases slant in from the upstage corners. At the start there are two tall tapering silver fleches topped with Corinthian capitals, and a row of silver rods hanging behind. Other irregular rafts of widely spaced rods go up and down here and there during the play. There is nothing wrong with stylized settings, but to have players point to these batches of vertical rods and call them a "tent" is carrying license too far. Armstrong has clothed the cast...
...they were looking for a relaxed and lazy vacation, the 26 students who signed on for summer jobs at the St. Petersburg Times soon got a new slant on the months ahead. Not for them the nearby beaches; not for them such time-killing chores as toting copy, answering phones or writing the myriad obits that the retirement haven inevitably requires. On his first day, Marc Rosenbaum, a Colgate freshman-to-be, found himself on the rewrite desk. "I'm not even sure what I'm doing," he gasped as the deadline rushed up. But he did fine...
Press reactions shared the same slant. Time began its account of the assassination with...
...civilian population of about 2,700,000-less than two-thirds of what it had been when the war began-roughly 2,000,000 were women. Small wonder that the fear of sexual attack raced through the city like a plague. Nazi propaganda had long painted Soviet troops as slant-eyed Mongols who butchered women and children on sight, raped nuns and burned clergymen to death with flamethrowers. As a result, doctors were besieged by patients seeking information about the quickest way to commit suicide, and poison was in great demand...