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Henry Kissinger raised the threat of resignation to real art. In 1971, when a leak of secret transcripts disclosed the White House "tilt" toward Pakistan (in its war with India over independence for Bangladesh), Kissinger was mortified. He never intended to resign, but he sent the signals out through his elaborate network of foreign policy friends. A resounding vote of confidence came quietly back. It shored him up spiritually and also within Nixon's White House...
Turnovers, a quick Huskie defense, and usually sure shots that just wouldn't fall plagued the Crimson during that stretch. With both teams running fast-break offenses at full tilt, things got a little too quick for a tired Crimson squad...
...Tilt the cardboard tube and the glass shards shift; the pattern seen through the prism changes...
...known fault lines to determine when the rock might be nearing the breaking point. More recently, they have begun to look for other signals of an impending quake, such as changes in the ability of the rock to convey sound waves, local alterations in the earth's surface tilt and magnetic field, and increases in the release from the ground of radioactive radon gas, a phenomenon associated with the fissuring of rock under pressure. Experts have even begun to take seriously reports that animals behave skittishly before quakes...
Perhaps it was the fact that The Game was televised by ABC, or perhaps it was the fact that the Ivy League title was at stake, but most likely, the enthusiasm surrounding the tilt was derived from the time-honored, quaint tradition...