Word: tilts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York Yankees, paced by Bill Skowron's three-run homer, forced the series to go the seven-game limit by downing the Brooklyn Dodgers 5 to 1 in yesterday's tilt before a capacity crowd at Yankee Stadium...
...wire-enclosed Central Elections Committee headquarters in Jaffa, guarded by a posse of police, the votes were counted. The result showed an un expected drift away from Ben-Gurion's moderate Mapai (Labor) Party, a defeat for the more conservative General Zionists, and a surprising tilt towards the extremists of both sides. Shock-haired Ben-Gurion, Israel's first Premier, who became a shepherd and now has returned to shep herd his people, had acted almost as if the premiership would be his by acclamation. Apparently, the present Premier, Moshe Sharett, also a member of Mapai...
...beautiful fellow scientist Faith Domergue try to escape, they are scooped into a flying saucer and whizzed off to the planet of Metaluna to help their hard-pressed host fight off some neighboring spacemen. The interplanetary war that follows has Metaluna looking like a giant pinball machine screaming "Tilt!" in seven different colors. What with dodging flaming meteors and grappling with odious mutants (half-human and half-insect monsters that have a weakness for female earthlings), Rex and Faith are mighty lucky to grab a seat on the last spaceship back to earth...
...Bell is experimenting with convertiplanes that have huge rotorlike propellers which take the plane up, then tilt 90° forward for horizontal flight. Not to be confused with convertiplanes are the Navy's Convair XFV1 and Lockheed XFV-1, which take off and land vertically on their tails, merely nose over for level flight...
...best Crimson ball club in at least a decade will travel to Philadelphia today to play an average Penn team in the varsity's fourth Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League game of the year. Following the tilt with the Quakers, the team will go to Princeton and continue its quest of the EIBL championship against the Tigers tomorrow...