Word: tilts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another fault that tends to tilt the index upward is its failure to list new products quickly enough. New products generally come out at a fairly high price (as color television did), later drop in cost when the market expands and competitors enter the field. The index usually does not record new products until their prices level off, and then possibly rise a bit as a result of increasing public demand. If new products were entered earlier, the argument goes, they would better reflect the eventual drop in prices, tend to pull the whole index average downward. Delaying their listing...
Originally scheduled to be played at the Myopia Country Club, the game was moved to the Hamilton site because of wet, ugly grounds. A loyal crowd of 500 fans turned out for the tilt...
...cold man who amid ecclesiastical tasks had felt little human emotion, the monsignor, turned detective about the dead, runs full tilt upon love and hate, good and evil, in the living. Encountered in his investigations are a humanely skeptical Jewish doctor, a peasant woman who was Nerone's adoring mistress, their illegitimate teen-aged son, and a nymphomaniac contessa who clashes with a bitter homosexual painter over the boy. Watching past and present collide, seeing martyrdom cheek by jowl with betrayal and murder with suicide, the monsignor-before his own death-becomes a more troubled...
...members plus Mississippi's William Colmer. Because most major bills require positive action by the Rules Committee, the six conservatives were able to use a 6-to-6 deadlock to stall any legislation they disliked. By adding two new Democrats and only one Republican, Sam Rayburn expected to tilt the 6-to-6 standoff to an 8-to-7 majority. So much was at issue in the shift that the fortnight before the showdown saw the House's fiercest struggle for votes in many a year, a struggle that ultimately involved personal pressure from the new President...
...hurt me yet"), credits his longevity as a jumper to his trade: "As a carpenter, I get eight hours of exercise a day." To strengthen his legs and ankles, the tireless Tokle is fond of turning a barrel on its side, hopping on top and running at full tilt while it spins beneath him ("You ought to try it sometime...