Word: tilts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Words are not enough to describe the silent beauty of this man's every step and gesture. The tilt of his head or the stoop of his shoulders, the raising of his hand or the arching of his brow, make a prose description something quite awkward if not faintly sacrilegious. Marcel Marceau is an accomplished actor, a striking artist, and a wondrous, wordless poet...
...Tilt at the Kilt...
What has happened to Don Quixote Kennedy that he passes such big windmills as Hungary, Rumania, Poland, Czechoslovakia and East Germany to tilt at Algeria, which the French have run so successfully for 127 years...
...Denny McCluggage suddenly became dissatisfied with San Francisco ("I felt I owned it"), and set out for New York to "tilt with skyscrapers." For the first six months, the skyscrapers knocked her flat; while laying siege to the Herald Tribune (because another woman, far-traveling Marguerite Higgins, had done so well there), she judged jingle contests, publicized a few hotels, and on some days was down to very slim rations. But the Herald Trib finally surrendered, hired her to write women's features. In 1955 Sports Editor Bob Cooke saw a piece she had written on skiing, brought...
...Caterpillar Tractor's side-dumping bucket for crawler tractors. Unlike other buckets, it rests on the end of the rig, can tilt to 60° right or left, deliver load to truck without having tractor turn to dump...