Word: slanting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...triumph was a victory of utter weakness. He stood fast in the path of the bull, directing its charge with a close sweep of his crimson muleta, winding the bull around him, said Ernest Hemingway, "like a belt-his right leg pushed toward the bull, in that bent slant which will be copied but never made truly until another genius comes in the same twisted body." Twisted, small, weak, Belmonte survived with courage that was more than a match for his inability to move with the bull. "My legs were in such a state," he once said, "that...
...watching bright blips drifting across his radarscope as he traced the track of airplanes approaching from Europe. The planes seemed to be scattered all over the sky, sometimes as far as 150 miles off course. Only when the planes came within reach of land radio guidance did the blips slant crabwise back to their proper courses...
...Those who today try to imply an over-arching Keynesian (whatever they mean by that!) or even a Marxist slant to our teachings [in Economics] know neither Harvard nor the subject of economics in our time," said the President...
...edit with a left-wing slant, just as we thought you would-you ignore the doughnut but magnify the hole! This is a biased pro-socialist attack on the anti-Marxists...
...week ago the New York Journal-American blared forth in a banner headline: OFF BROADWAY GOES HARVARD. A couple of days earlier, a small box on The New York Times' theatre page had announced that "'Sing Muse', a musical that offers 'a new slant' on Helen and other matters leading up to the Trojan War, will open off Broadway in the first week of December...