Word: tilts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Berets. In January 1957, with the Algerian rebellion in full tilt and the capital city terrorized by bomb attacks, Massu was named Military Commander of Algiers. With 20,000 paratroopers, spearheaded by his own loth Parachute Division, he directed the cleanup of terrorists with thudding thoroughness and violence. He came under fire in France for the "police state" operations of his network of 1,500 block informants, and the torture methods admittedly used by his men on captured Moslems...
...must be alert to avoid. To stimulate circulation, avoid kidney stones and prevent his joints from locking and his bones from decalcifying, he must somehow rise to a standing position for at least an hour a day, a dizzying feat that is aided at first with a special tilt-table. The patient is also faced with the distressing fact that he cannot control his bladder and bowels. Though he is taught automatic control, the adult must put up with what embarrasses the child: he is going...
Astigmatism, closing one eye, or somehow throwing one eye out of commission makes it possible for the painter to see reality simultaneously in three dimensions. The painter tilts his head; horizontal and vertical lines and shapes correspondingly shift and tilt from one lower corner to the opposite upper corner of the canvas...
Fire When Ready! In April 1897 T.R. was appointed by G.O.P. President William McKinley as Assistant Secretary of the Navy. Spanish reinforcements were pouring across the Atlantic to wipe out freedom fighters in Cuba. More ominously, Germany and Japan were building fleets to challenge Pax Britannica and tilt the world balance of power. T.R. argued for war with Spain to kick the Spaniards % out of Cuba and to get the U.S. into world posture, a course also advocated by T.R.'s mentor and friend, Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan, as the only...
...died out in the Christian West-probably the last to use it regularly are the all-but-extinct Shakers. But, as shown on these pages, among the peoples of Asia dancing is still an organic and important part of religion; each step and gesture, even a finger's tilt, may be loaded with metaphysical meaning. Costumes are designed according to ancient and elaborate convention: in a classic Indian dance drama called Kathakali, the makeup alone often takes from early morning until late in the afternoon. The music accompanying dancers in the East ranges from the Kathakali's ceaseless...