Word: tilts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...leaders as they gather around the celestial TV set to watch their party's convention. Theodore Roosevelt: It's a bully sight! Calvin Coolidge: Too expensive. Mark Hanna: Not much excitement. I can't see a single smoke-filled room. Henry Cabot Lodge: I'm worried about the westward tilt of the party. The East always supplied the intellectual leadership. T.R.: If I had not gone West . . . Coolidge: What's all this talk about winning the blue-collar vote? America's business is business. Abraham Lincoln: Don't forget that the workingman's vote helped to elect the first Republican...
High-heeled shoes may be in fashion in certain circles, but they throw the spine badly out of line, tilt the pelvis and can lead to trouble. Try hard to resist them...
Driving long distances can be a sure pain in the back. Some remedies: get out of the car every hour and walk around for a few minutes; position the seat forward so that knees are bent; place a cushion at the small of the back; if the tilt of a car's seats can be adjusted, change the angle slightly every so often. Boston Orthopedist Robert Boyd has perhaps the best idea: "If the trip is longer than a few hours...
...known, Sanjay had limited influence on India's foreign policy, an area in which Mrs. Gandhi thus far has shown less interest than she used to. Since her return to office, Washington has been worried about a possible pro-Moscow tilt by New Delhi. Indian condemnations of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan were less than ringing, and Mrs. Gandhi did sign an agreement with Moscow to purchase $1.6 billion in Soviet arms (mostly T-72 tanks and missiles) over a 17-year period. But government spokesmen point out that Moscow has long been one of India's major...
Dunayev says that no official reads his scripts before they are broadcast and that nothing is off bounds except military secrets. His commentary, of course, has a decided pro-Soviet tilt, but Dunayev insists that he cleaves to the truth. Says he: "The most important thing is to be objective, not for the sake of objectivity -I am a Communist and believe in my ideals-but because we have to prepare people for the real facts...