Word: tilts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Reid: Tilt your hand...
...might in death have looked like a twisted tragic hero. As it is, even after his last speech has sealed his lips and ended any chance that he will explain his evil motives to the audience. Pachoda's Iago can divert attention from center-stage with a defiant tilt of his head...
...short order, India's shamefully ill-prepared troops were retreating at full tilt on both border fronts, the world's largest working democracy was paralyzed with shock and humiliation, and the Western world had new reason to fret about the Chinese menace. Indian Premier Jawaharlal Nehru, the great apostle of nonviolence, thundered that Communist China had proved itself "a wholly irresponsible country that does not care about peace." In the White House, John Kennedy quickly agreed to New Delhi's urgent request for U.S. arms. Explained Phillips Talbot, Kennedy's Assistant Secretary of State...
...pilot dropped back into subsonic flight. Again, no jolts or jars. The Concorde came home as smoothly as it went out, with its crazy tilt on touchdown; the rear wheels banged onto the runway, and the nose followed seconds later. We had been in the air for one hour and 39 minutes; we had covered 1,425 miles...
...only 7 a.m., but the operating room in Cleveland Clinic's cardiovascular unit was going full tilt. Nurses, technicians and visiting doctors watched as members of a surgical team took their places around the operating table. With confidence born of experience, the surgeons made a vertical incision from the patient's collarbone to his diaphragm, sawed through his breastbone and then, using a framelike mechanism, spread the rib cage and exposed the pericardium, or heart...