Word: pinwheeling
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Astronomers have observed that galaxies seem to come in four shapes: 1) spherical, 2) elliptical (like an egg), 3) tightly spiral (like a watch spring) and 4) loosely spiral (like a pinwheel). The Milky Way is a pinwheel. Sir James reasoned that a spherical galaxy spinning in space, like a whirling ball of soft butter, must spread out at the edges and flatten in the center and become more & more disk-shaped, thus evolving from a ball to a spiral. Therefore, said he, a sphere must be the first stage in galactic evolution and a spiral the last...
Picasso still experimented with his own brand of cubism, and distorted figure painting. Woman in Blue Waist showed a seated figure against soft green. Woman in Armchair added to Picasso's cubism a pinwheel-and-tinsel fantasy...
Jimmy is also a pinwheel satirist. He constantly kids the formalities of human discourse ('"Dat's da conditions dat prevail!'"). He is a relentless lampooner of high society who, in his nightclubs, has often suddenly leered over an especially low neckline with a solicitous '"Pardon me, madame, dew you feel a draft?'" Jimmy's own show business takes a constant beating from him. Perhaps the subtlest of all his comic achievements is his parody of the way in which many people from his own proletarian background maltreat the culture they so earnestly desire...
...Chinese, who invented fireworks, will not shoot any off on July 4, 1942. That is to be the sad day, announced China's Central News Agency last week, when the rocket-swift, pinwheel-precise American Volunteer Group ceases to be a unit of the Chinese army and becomes a part of the U.S. Army Air Forces...
Besides putting a stop to the rampages of Busik, except for one 32-yard sweep around end which was terminated by Lee's pinwheel tackle, the stubborn Crimson eleven completely smothered 252 pounds of fighting Flathmann, Navy's big left tackle who was supposed to clear holes in the enemy line by little more than looking...