Word: slant
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Whelchel hadn't taken to the air in the entire first quarter. Suddenly he discovered his own right arm and started picking the pass defense apart with the kind of short, hook-and-slant passes that a 5-4 defense is supposed to be vulnerable to. Only a fumble by Phil DeRose at the nine-yard line stopped what seemed like a sure UMass touchdown as the second quarter ended...
...black ships, sketching virtually everything in sight with swift brush strokes on mulberry-bark paper. Their captions are often as eerily strange as their pictures, which confirmed the Japanese notion that all Westerners had enormous noses and were covered with hair. Cleanshaven Commodore Perry is shown as a slant-eyed demon, heavily mustached and bearded, with eyebrows as thick as bagels...
...root of this Republican resentment is one of the basic facts of U.S. journalistic life: most members of the working press are inclined to the Democratic side of politics. The working Republicans know it, and therefore see signs of slant in the coverage that they get. Thus Donald Lukens, the chairman of the Young Republican National Federation, has called for more young Republicans to become journalists "to promote honest and accurate reporting of the Republican cause...
...think of one slant, in fact, that the text would probably justify. Guzzetti might have made the girl something older than the boy, inclined to drink too much, and cherishing an image of herself as a sensitive young thing that is wrong by about eight years. She is, after all, a "pretend person," and her reference to herself as a Tennessee Williams heroine who "can't stand anything vulgar" might have been followed up. The boy, a nervous and disillusioned "truth person," who does not recognize her need to be seduced, might have been portrayed as a good deal less...
...Because of your obscene slant on the Goldwater campaign, indicating that G.O.P. professionals would nominate Goldwater against the voters' wishes, I don't want you to send me another issue of your mud-crawling magazine...