Word: tilting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...foot long piece of wood sculpture of ancient indigenous origin, with lots of room on which to lay your note-book, of whatever shape you may have, and your hat, if you wear one, your spare pencil, your spectacles and your watch, with lots of leg-room underneath, to tilt, squirm, or sprawl as the fancy seizes you-or a smooth, varnished wood-and-iron chair, carved to fit your bottom, screwed immovably to the floor, with the right arm designed for writing on, that is widened enough to take one roundish shaped piece of paper or a clip-board...
...Mount Holyoke game is going to tire us," captain Fred Coburn said last night. "We don't have much depth and the boys will be run down for the Radcliffe tilt. It looks like a tough fight all the way down...
...fray after only two days' practice on the 'Cliffe quad under the aegis of an anonymous Radcliffe field hockey star. Pine Manor, Wheaton, Sargent, and Mt. Holyoke have all accepted challanges from the unhappy locals. No invasion of the Annex is as yet scheduled, but negotiations for the tilt are being plotted...
...clock the Mercury drove me to what had once been one of Europe's finest polo grounds. There was Tito, now in a flashy riding habit, trotting his handsome white mare, Mitzi. He put her into a gallop, came towards me at full tilt. As he reined up I said: "I hear you like to fish, Marshal." "We go fishing," he said. Briskly he swung Mitzi around and rode off to the villa. By the time we reached the rowboats which would take us to his launch, Tito had made another quick change and appeared in a beige business...
...good players have their reward-free games to those who reverence the machine and will not tilt, who use the flippers at the right time and the right place. When the final score is all added up in the end, the machine, with its unfailing precision, indicates how many more games can be played without the insertion of a nickel...