Word: tilts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...monthly "Easy Chair" columns and longer articles, Harper's Editor Lewis H. Lapham also frequently takes a conservative tilt. Lapham bridles, for example, at the all-out conservationist position in the energy debate. "People want what they want," he maintains, "and they will pay whatever prices they must, and so it is no use [for the Government] to tell them what's good for them." Lapham inveighs bitterly against a variety of adversaries and attitudes, including the empire building of major cultural institutions. He has no quarrel with readers who complain that his magazine often dwells, in classic...
...Bixby suffered his first loss of the season in one of the close match-ups of the Coast Guard tilt. Coast Guard captain, Mickey Butler, defeated Bixby, one of Harvard's co-captains...
...days after the Princeton tilt comes the opening round of the Beanpot against (yep) Northeastern, and you can bet things won't be the same...
After finishing the semester in Atlanta, he travelled north and joined the Crimson squad the week before the Dartmouth tilt. He has steadily increased his playing time in each of the last eight games and is looking forward to a much delayed debut...
...while the rest of the world was condemning Sampson and his backers in Athens, the Secretary of State did not disguise his relief at the defeat of Makarios, whom he had long regarded as a mercurial, left-leaning troublemaker. By his refusal to denounce the coup, Kissinger seemed to tilt toward Sampson and the military rulers. Then, when democracy replaced dictatorship in Greece, and Turkey switched from being an aggrieved neighbor to an often brutal occupier of Cyprus, Kissinger shifted his stance in favor of Ankara. Throughout the episode, in the metaphor of Author Stern's title...