Word: tilting
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...such admissions of American guilt or provocation, even the much more destructive episode in Viet Nam or Nixon's tilt toward Pakistani genocide in Bangladesh in 1971, are not part of Brzezinski's scheme. Nor does he take into account widespread American economic imperialism, often depriving Third World peasants even of the very soil under their feet (see Food First,) by Lappe and Collins). All evil is from the Soviet camp, he argues. Therefore he will not apologize to Iran even for the sake of 50 American lives; and when I asked him why not, after his talk, he cited...
Despite the guards, the Olympic esprit, arising from the ideal of bringing the youth of the world together, still lives in the Olympic Village. A free game room filled with the latest in pinball machines and electronic games does a brisk business. TILT is an international language. A disco with ear-numbing banks of speakers and flashing lights is in full shriek at night. In the main courtyard of the Olympic Village, the flags of the I.O.C., the Lake Placid symbol and the 37 countries represented at the Winter Games, snap in the wind against a winter sky. Below, athletes...
Freshman Andy McNerney emerged as the Crimson's hero with victories in both his matches. Against B.C.'s Butch Montoya, McNerney used every existing version of the tilt and then invented a few variations of his own to traumatize the lackluster Eagle grappler...
McNerney still relies on a series of unorthodox moves to gain an edge, but always manages to work in the tilt and outsmart the most polished of veterans. Edwards, an All-Ivy choice last year, got tied up just when he seemed to have complete control...
...those of Vance. Said a senior State Department official: "Zbig's finally got his cold war." Indeed, it struck some foreign policy experts as ironic that Brzezinski's longstanding advocacy of a tough line had apparently been vindicated by a crisis that his arguments, his Moscow-baiting and his tilt toward Peking may have helped to cause...