Word: tilts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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INDIA-PAKISTAN CONFLICT. Syndicated Columnist Jack Anderson published during December of 1971 some nearly verbatim reports of meetings of the Washington Special Action Group (WASAG) on the fighting in East Pakistan. He quoted WASAG Chairman Kissinger as saying that President Nixon wanted to "tilt" toward Pakistan. Administration officials were both furious and embarrassed that such secret discussions had become public knowledge. But neither the Indians nor their supporters in Congress were surprised by revelations of a pro-Pakistan bias in the White House...
Textile manufacturers, who only a short time ago had substantial idle capacity, are going full tilt. Says Donald Comer Jr., of Avondale Mills in Sylacauga, Ala.: "We are using our machines 24 hours a day in three shifts." The auto industry is also racing flat out, but its dealers' stockpiles are nonetheless dwindling. Car makers like to keep about a 60-day supply of cars in transit or on dealers' lots. Now the supply covers sales for only 48 days...
...lonely grey-beards who comb sports statistics in places like Podunk, Kansas, are not apt to be upset by the Crimson lacrosse team's ninth place rating in New England, but it is with the stigma that the stickmen journey to New Hampshire today for an all-important tilt with fourth-ranked Dartmouth...
...tilt today marks the beginning of the fat end of the season. Saturday, the ten travels to Princeton, a week from today it visits Dartmouth, and on May 12, it will host Yale in the finale...
...Quakers enter today's tilt with a 2-2 slate, having taken consecutive victories over Penn State (13-7) and Yale (12-3). At defense, Penn's entire first string from last year returns intact to terrorize opposing offenses. The only position weakened by graduation was goal, but Lew Green will be minding nets today...