Word: tilter
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...screen for something like a decade. It is not just simply that as a child Coppola was knocked out by a glimpse of the Tucker Torpedo at an auto show in the late '40s. It is rather that he too is a merchant of slightly skewed dreams, a tilter at his industry's conventional wisdom and a man who is himself a typical American genius, half visionary, half humbug...
...laughed off as a windmill tilter, shrugged off as a lackluster campaigner, written off as a condescending cynic. But last week, when the votes in New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation presidential primary were counted, Minnesota's Democratic Senator Eu gene J. McCarthy came off-to practically everyone's surprise-a hero. THE UNFORESEEN EUGENE, proclaimed a placard toted by one of his fans after the balloting, and that said...
...Morris Milgram, a product of New York's Lower East Side and an ar dent tilter at the windmills of social injustice, announced plans for a 51-home development in Deerfield. Milgram is in the business of building houses-and his passion is building them for both Negroes and whites...
Dwight Macdonald is a genial tilter at windmills, and in his time he has bowled over more than his share. If occasionally a blade clouts him on the back of the noggin, he is undeterred. He barrels on, filling the conversational air with friendly bellowings and snorts even when he has not formed words ready to his tongue. He can keep an interrupter at bay just by an elongated stammer, disarm the most savage attacker with a high, snuffling whinny, and it sometimes takes the cold light of morning to tell where he went wrong. But he remains...
...maiden whose hand he had just won (see cut). The choice of dress was symbolic. Later, Romney rode forth to battle, astride his trusty Rambler to engage what he considered the modern U.S. dragon: the dinosaur-like big car. For a while, Detroit regarded him as a mere windmill tilter. But as Romney began to smite the dinosaur hip and thigh, TIME chronicled his success round by round, carefully reported the rise of the small car in the U.S. Finally, the Big Three have had to pay Romney the sincerest form of flattery by bringing out their own compact cars...