Word: tilting
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...because there exists this larger context, one shouldn't underestimate the importance of tennis. Every activity in each of our lives, as well as our lives themselves, shares a similar subservience to the larger scope. The larger perspective, when opened full tilt, can reduce anything to triviality...
Ratings are sure to change after yesterday's tilt. Going in, Harvard was ranked ninth in New England, while UMass stood fifth...
...indication of the depths to which relations between Carter and the Jews have sunk is a nasty squabble over Carter's chief foreign affairs adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski. Jewish leaders blame him for much of what they see as the pro-Arab tilt in Administration policy. Brzezinski has aggravated the tension by charging that the Jewish community is trying to smear him as antiSemitic. Retorts Rabbi Alexander Schindler. chairman of the Conference of Presidents: "That's an outrageous overreaction on his part. Nobody called him anti-Semitic or implied that. Disagreement is not racist." His conference colleagues back Schindler...
...unemployed for a year during the Depression 1930s. Says Murphy, in the flat tones of Chicago, where he grew up: "When I see the magnitude of our spending, I can't understand why the national figures for capital investment don't show more of an upward tilt...
...Troy, N.Y., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute was leading 6-5 until B.C. co-captain Rob Riley slipped a rebound past RPI's netminder at 14:35 of the third, prolonging that tilt. Fourth-ranked RPI couldn't get it back as the Eagles' Paul Hammer got the game-winner at 0:44 of the extra stanza...