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Word: tilts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...believed in discipline, and discipline began with himself. He knew his mind. He made quick decisions and stuck to them. Confronted with a problem, a plea, an argument-he always allowed room for argument-he would tilt back in his swivel chair, eyes on the ceiling, hands clasped behind his head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Editors, Nov. 13, 1978 | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

...some of the world's ruggedest mountain terrain, to no ultimate military purpose. On a windswept turret of the wall completed in 214 B.C., in a 500-year-old pavilion of the Forbidden City or Soochow's leaning Tiger Hill Pagoda (it has a 3¾° tilt), the visitor is not so much awed as numbed. Who were-and are - the people who could construct such fantasies? What else have they wrought? Are there other such marvels and monstrosities to be seen or expected? The Foreign Friend, as he is designated today, faces the same quandary that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: China Says: Ni hao! | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

Although I plugged the Red Sox first, I don't want anyone to get the idea that they are excused from Saturday's football contest at Soldier's Field, where the Crimson gridders will host the Minutemen of the University of Massachusetts in a non-conference tilt at 1:30. The Harvard contingent will be trying to avenge last year's loss to the Minutemen and notch their first win of this season after last week's disappointing defeat at the hands of Columbia, "The Germ of the Ocean...

Author: By Bill GINS Berg, | Title: Fresh Footprints | 9/28/1978 | See Source »

...singles title in the 1978 tennis classic, while Emily Skoler prevailed in the women's division. Lynn Rosenbaum and Tory Kiani copped the crown in mixed doubles. The tourney attracted over 100 entries...Finals of freshman basketball tourney slated for tomorrow at the IAB in a 7:30 tilt...Speaking of hoop, varsity hoop coach Frank McLaughlin hopes some lanky newcomers can fill the conter-forward void left by graduation. Six-foot, ten-inch Bobby McCabe from Tabor Academy, 6-7 Cave Coatesworth from Seattle, New Haven's Don Fleming (6-5) and North Dakota timberwood Kirk Mundy...

Author: By Jonathan J. Ledecky, | Title: Curry Eyes Giant Catch | 9/20/1978 | See Source »

...concerns often differ from their brother Cardinals in Europe and the New World, conceded that an Italian was needed to handle the delicate role the papacy still must play in Italy's uncertain politics. Beyond that some Cardinals feared that any non-Italian might give a threatening new tilt to the Vatican...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: How Pope John Paul I Won | 9/11/1978 | See Source »

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