Word: kilter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there's something out of kilter with Munro's team. The Crimson has won four out of its five games in the North this year, but three out of these were foregone wins. "We could play three-times as well as we are playing now," says Munro...
...Kilter. On top of these burdens, Congress cut taxes by $4.8 billion. In the sense that the cut put extra cash in the hands of consumers to spend, that also proved to be a burden on the economy. Retail sales started up again. The businessmen of good will-such as International Harvester's Fowler McCormick-who had cut prices in hopes of starting a healthy downtrend all around, had to change course; they put prices up again. The hope had been that the U.S. would be able to add the burdens of ECA and rearmament without more inflation; that...
...physical prowess of Doc Blanchard and similar "iron men", he makes one allowance. "There is," he concedes, "a type of boy who can overcome injuries by coordinating his style of play to fit the particular aliment-in contrast to the player who gets knocked out of kilter like a delicate watch with a grain of sand in it when hit by injury. The fellow who can keep going by making the injured limb do twice the work while the weak one mends is your so-called iron...
...kick is all-important. But as the bullet approaches the speed of light, it gains in mass, according to Einstein's relativity principle that at high speeds energy is converted into matter. Result: the heavier particle slows down and the timing system is thrown out of kilter...
When a thoroughgoing magnetic storm gets rolling, there is the devil to pay. Radio and telegraph communications get out of kilter, navigation devices turn unreliable. The reason: great gusts of electrons, blasted loose from the sun by cyclonic sunspots, are overcharging the ionosphere. Effects of this high-level ionization are visible to the human eye in the aurora borealis, seen last fortnight as far south as New York and in Britain's Channel Islands...