Word: tilts
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...this election so close? Because too many people see money up, crime down and their own gardens in bloom, and thus conclude that matters of public policy have no connection to their life. So they focus on nonsense. They tilt toward Bush in the debates out of some adolescent response to powerlessness and ineptitude. They tilt away from Gore because he appears to know that he's intellectually superior to and more civic-minded than his opponent...
More importantly, Sunday's tilt will once again have a huge impact on the Ivy League standings. In each of the past six seasons, the winner of the Harvard-Dartmouth match-up has gone on to become Ivy League champion. The stakes are no less high this time around, as the Big Green is just half a game in back of the Crimson for first place in the league...
...pleasure in watching the Olympic kids on TV was their full-tilt surefootedness. "It was awesome! I was totally psyched!" Sports are what happens years ago, except for the attitude they engender--that one may live in a perpetual state of happy expectation, even at an age when victory is out of the question. Fitzgerald said, "The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter...
Entering its tilt with Yale at Ohiri Field tomorrow at 2:30 p.m., Harvard (7-2, 2-1 Ivy) is riding a five-game winning streak and stands in prime position to gain ground in the Ivy League standings...
...that tilt at Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell quarterback Ricky Rahne and the Big Red charged back from a 13-point deficit late in the fourth quarter to give Cornell a lead 26 seconds left in the game. The Crimson drove down the field to set up a potentially game-winning 40-yard field goal attempt. But Splendorio denied the attempt by Mike Giampaolo '00 to win the game...