Word: tilting
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...bombing of Serbia or the entry of U.S. corporations into India's catering market to globalization in general. U.S. embassies may be impregnable, but the wide windows of McDonald's and KFC are a tempting forest of windmills for Nike-clad Quixotes everywhere in the world who want to tilt at symbols of American influence...
...Democrats hoping to tilt Florida to Al Gore," reported the Associated Press on Nov. 10, "scoured the state for examples of alleged election irregularities." Hence the parade of Gore supporters eager to testify on camera to their inability to read a ballot. Hence the sit-ins and demonstrations, the legal action and partisan pressure--in essence, the postelection election campaign. Such maneuvers, intended to alter the result of an election after the balloting, are the kind of spectacle one expects in a banana republic. Win or lose, Gore's threats of protracted political and legal action to overturn unfavorable results...
...ultimate Clintonism--an astonishing tie, a masterpiece of delicately balanced ambivalence. We end by looking at a split screen, like one of those old campaign buttons that shows you one image (Gore) if you look at it from one angle and a different image (Bush) if you tilt it slightly. I seem to see Clinton enter smilingly upon the chaotic scene: "Say, if y'all can't make up your minds, why don't we just...I mean, if it ain't broke...
...Crimson entered its critical tilt against Penn not having won a game at Franklin Field in 20 years. Harvard was able to produce big plays and match the explosive Penn offense point for point. Rose hooked up with Morris for a 77-yard touchdown pass on the team's first play from scrimmage. Minutes later, freshman defensive back Benny Butler returned an interception 54 yards for another TD. In the second quarter, Nick Palazzo broke free for a 66-yard touchdown run, the longest of his career...
...worst of all, its scrawny "athletes" tilt at windmills and utter vain challenges to those of greater skill...