Word: slanted
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...Bell, hard-running tailback, closed the scoring in the first half when he galloped 35 yards on an off-tackle slant...
...Gold Coasters got their two points at the beginning of the first quarter when Les Archambeau, sophomore quarterback, was caught behind the goal line on an attempted pass play. Leverett's score came in the second period on an off-tackle slant with Blitz carrying...
...whirling panorama of slant hatted insurance salesmen, cow-like women, bull-like men, and smiling madmen, Harington weaves a crazy pattern of the present. His starting thread is Hal Hingham, an agent of Arcadia Life, afraid of sales prospects, and frightened of his bulbous, seductive landiady. The image of Hingham the failure is obvious: "The broken, abandoned pencil-sharpener had depressed him. It reminded him of himself. People didn't care how they treated mass-produced equipment." He was a nobody in world that seemed complex and cruel. Even at childhood his father appeared one day only long enough...
...feature of the U.S. exhibit and hit of the show is the "swimming-pool reactor," a working research reactor set up on the lawn outside the palace. It is housed in a building that looks like a large, windowless Swiss chalet. Inside, from a black ceiling, beams of light slant down. On a red linoleum platform stands the reactor, a pool of crystal-clear water, faintly blue and 21 ft. deep, with control rods reaching into it. At the bottom, enveloped in blue luminescence, are the reacting uranium plates. Visitors can look down with perfect safety, and sense the atom...
...bouncy Athlyn Deshais goes far beyond the job of reporting weddings and charity benefits, stretches society reporting to cover everything from running a "society queen" contest (TIME, Jan. 18, 1954) to writing features on the availability of bachelors. Last week she had her readers stirred up with a new slant on society...