Word: tilts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perfectly Taurus. Schmidt's theory turns upon the fact that in the 2,000 years since the old astrological rules were set up, there has been a slight change in the tilt of the earth's axis. This has caused an apparent shift in the positions of the constellations. In addition, he notes that astrologers have refused to recognize that there are actually 14 constellations in the Zodiac belt...
Thus Bolivia's leftward tilt revealed to the world the accelerating momentum of a major trend in Latin America. A year ago, when he launched his government of "revolutionary nationalism," Ovando cast himself as a general of the left. He courted the same loose coalition of students, workers, and young, socially oriented military officers that Bolivia's flamboyant General René Barrientos had used as a power base during his regime. Ovando brought left-wing intellectuals into his Cabinet, expropriated the holdings of American-owned Bolivian Gulf Oil Co., and gave Communist labor leaders free reign...
...affluent Easterner from Blue Hill, Me., who thrilled Janis by, among other things, paying the dinner checks she always used to have to pick up herself, even when in a crowd. To her friends, she talked casually of the possibility of marriage. Her new back-up group, the Full Tilt Boogie Band, had got excellent notices on a coast-to-coast tour last summer. Recording sessions for Columbia-six-day-a-week affairs, often running from 2 p.m. to midnight-had been going well. Out of ten songs planned for her new album, she had only two left to complete...
...marginal-won by 5% or less of the total vote m the last election. Obey squeaked through with a mere 51.5% in a 1969 special election to choose a successor to Melvin Laird, who had resigned to become Secretary of Defense. It is in such close races that the tilt of the next House of Representatives will be determined...
...getting him into film. Though the BBC was outraged at being passed over, Lord Snowdon says: "It was important that I should be asked to do my first film by an entirely private firm with no state money behind it." That way, he feels, no one could cry tilt...