Word: tilts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other action around the Ivy circuit takes' a back seat today to the featured clash at Ithaca between Harvard and Cornell. Yale and Dartmouth will be trying to keep their shares of the League lead with the winner of the Ithaca tilt, and Princeton and Penn will attempt rebounds from their first defeats of the season, against non-League rivals...
INCREDIBLE VICTORY, by Walter Lord. The 1942 Battle of Midway, refought through the recollections of survivors on both sides in a manner that conveys the dizzying tilt of every sinking ship...
Boudreaux wanted to do metal work, but he could not reach a workbench from a wheelchair, and anyhow, he could not sit on the ulcer at the base of his spine. He had heard about stand-up beds and tilt-tables-so why not convert a wheelchair into something similar? Therapist Robert E. Craig and Dr. Hodge M. Eagleson Jr. worked with Boudreaux in perfecting a sort of surfboard-wheelchair combination...
...were yet born when the famous old Redbird team was terrorizing the National League in the mid-1950s - but the family resemblance is unmistakable. There is Lou Brock dashing madly for second and sliding in safely with his 36th sto len base of the season. Curt Flood running full tilt into the centerfield wall to spear a liner that otherwise would have been a sure extra-base hit. Roger Maris crossing up the pulled-back enemy infield with a perfectly placed drag bunt. Orlando Cepeda explaining his .339 batting average and 19 home runs...
Victory is his replay of the 1942 Battle of Midway, in which seven Japanese and U.S. ships went down. Through these pages, the reader feels the dizzy tilt of every sinking...