Word: tilting
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During the past year, the leftward tilt of the balance has halted, in a change so subtle that people of the Western world might overlook it. But the signs are there: three former enemies of Russia-Japan, West Germany (including the vital Ruhr) and Italy-are now in the Western camp; a NATO army is forming; the gigantic U.S. industrial potential, to which Stalin paid respectful tribute in World War II, is beginning to Stir...
Appearance: Husky (6 ft., 200 Ibs.), jaunty, bluff, with a rakish flyer's tilt to his gold-braided...
...glance. The Cayuga Indian "Great One" mask, used in rites for the sick, represented a spirit who once challenged the Creator himself to a mountain-moving contest. The Creator responded by smacking a mountain right up against the Great One's nose, leaving him with a permanent nose tilt and a sheepish expression...
Throughout the game, both teams kept running at full tilt with the result that their shots and passing fell below par. The Indians repeatedly missed easy layups. The referees seemed to be blowing their whistles almost constantly...
About half the picture is devoted to needling its heroes into taking the law into their own hands. The movie keeps the action going at full tilt and draws on such acting talent as Macdonald Carey (Jesse), Wendell Corey (Frank James) and Ward Bond (the Yankee villain). Moviegoers who find glorified hoodlums hard to stomach, even at a safe historical distance, may suspect that Hollywood is almost ready for a film biography treating Al Capone-played, say, by Alan Ladd-as the innocent butt of a spiteful internal-revenue...