Word: tilts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...game with the H.A.A., was flooded last night by phone calls from newspapers, magazines, and radio stations attempting to arrange for coverage. WHRB hopes to broadcast the contest, Time and Life magazines called to say that they may attend, and many Boston newspapers plan stories on the epic tilt...
Grows, and makes, and bravely Persuades, beyond all tilt of wrong: Stronger than anger, wiser than strategy...
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...