Word: tilts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Angeles scrambled back to tie the game in the ninth inning on Lee Lacy's pinch-hit single, the blow that scored Dusty Baker and sent the tilt into extra frames...
...will broadcast the intrastate clash regionally, beginning at 1:30 this afternoon, and thus jettison coverage of the Oklahoma-Ohio State tilt for the local folks...
...claims of a biased press, as in much of his book, Lasky is inconsistent. While he condemns the press as Nixon's worst enemy, he also argues that it overplayed the violence outside the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago-thereby hurting Hubert Humphrey. "The convention coverage undoubtedly helped tilt the closely contested election to Nixon," concedes Lasky. And while the author repeatedly accuses the press of a bloodthirsty pursuit of Nixon during Watergate, he also approvingly quotes an observation in Commentary that "it was not the press which exposed Watergate; it was the agencies of Government itself...
...things ensured the success of the effort: the hostile treatment of Begin by much of the American press, and Jimmy Carter's seeming tilt toward the Arabs starting last spring. Explains Leo Mindlin, associate editor of the Miami-based Jewish Floridian: "There has been a closing of the ranks because American Jews are horrified at the prospect of a series of one-sided compromises in which the Israelis will pay." With their acute sense of survival-a sense developed in the ghettos of the Diaspora and the horrors of the Holocaust-most U.S. Jews regard that threat...
Serious Matter. For the President's visitors, these cheering remarks climaxed an energetic campaign to stem what they saw as the Administration's recent "tilt" toward the Arabs (TIME, June 27). In the last several weeks about 1,000 letters a week urging stronger support for Israel have poured into the White House. Important Senators have chimed in on the same theme. Two weeks ago, when he got a phone call from White House Aide Hamilton Jordan, Rabbi Schindler began to discern a change in mood. Says he: "Then I knew that the question of American-Israeli relations...