Word: tilts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...notable event: the world premiere of a new SEAN O'CASEY play. Mindful of the past, the law was ready. The first-night crowd was peppered with uniformed police and plainclothesmen, alert for action should the Dubliners repeat their 1926 objections to an O'Casey tilt with convention. Lester Bernstein of TIME'S London bureau was on hand to report the opening night of The Bishop's Bonfire (see THEATER...
...upset, always a strong possibility in this annual tilt, will depend mainly on the Eli's ability to repeat its early season performance when it defeated Boston College and Brown...
...trailer takeoff, an F-84 Thunderjet is equipped with a big "booster bottle" (solid propellant rocket) fixed under its tail. The plane is placed on the trailer and the pilot climbs aboard and buttons himself in. The trailer's arms unfold and tilt the nose upward. Then the pilot starts the jet engine. When it is turning at full power, an enormous flame and a cloud of smoke spurt out of the booster bottle. In a few seconds the plane is airborne. The exhausted rocket drops off, and the pilot proceeds. His sudden departure resembles a scene from...
Many of the new outboards had electric starters and mufflers and vibration-free mountings that sharply cut their noise. Evinrude has a new tilt-compensator that keeps the engine from bouncing against the back of the boat when the power is cut suddenly. Scott-Atwater has equipped all its engines, from 5 h.p. to 30 h.p., with its Bail-a-matic device, which bails the boat automatically as long as the engine is running...
...check was in payment of a fine levied against Onassis after Peru caught five of his whaleships hunting within the 200-mile offshore limit that Peru claims to control. But in Paris Onassis was just about as pleased as the Peruvian government. He had come out of his troublesome tilt with Peru not only unscathed but possibly money ahead...