Word: slanting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...wide-angle camera was designed to cover an area about 750 miles on a side, the exact figure depending on the altitude of the satellite and the slant at which it is viewing the earth. The narrow-angle camera covers an area 75 miles on a side. Its job is to observe cloud formations in fine detail, showing individual thunderclouds and other weather minutiae...
Fledgling Pundit Crosby, an alumnus of Exeter and Yale, says: "I am a reformer, a moralist by nature. The new column will have a strong moral slant. It would be presumptuous to say I will play the role of judge. I will be more a critic of society...
...several press conferences and in an interview with the CRIMSON, Steinberg has vigorously defended his editorial against Gallagher's accusations. "Every objective observer," he has insisted, agree that the article "was certainly not" written with a Marxist slant. It merely called attention to conflicts which were "a fact...
...eyes get out of level, and the octopus no longer knows which way is up -or, for that matter, down. Humans and other higher vertebrates are not handicapped in this way. Their more elaborate brains make allowance for the position of the eyes and keep the world from slanting whenever the eyes slant...
...their distinctive, Roman-influenced legal system, which features 15-man juries, permits the un-English verdict of "not proven"-meaning "we know you did it, but we haven't got enough to pin it on you." With justice, Scotsmen boast that their school system (which teaches the Scottish slant on British history) is superior to England's. The true Scot scorns such English institutions as cricket and fish and chips, preferring a hip-twisting Scottish reel and finnan haddie simmered in milk, which he compares to the finest French cuisine...