Word: spinned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...evoking familiar things "[the milkman's horse] casually shifted weight with a clink of steel shoes on the worn brick pavement of the street, and then heartily shook himself in his harness, perhaps to dislodge a fly far ahead of its season"; and the ability to spin out at his sardonic leisure a plot that became just sufficiently painful...
...velocity. The fact is, Professor Moore discovered, that when Hoppe cued the ball with English-as any poolroom fan could have told him, though not in so many words-he gave the ball rotational energy as well as its usual translational or rolling energy. When the ball's spin slowed, the energy was turned into forward roll...
...most far reaching effect of the gate's truculence has been to instill a phobia against all gates in the malleable minds of Freshmen. Passers-by are shocked to see healthy students balk before the gates, spin around, and scrabble over the walls surrounding the Yard rather than face the mental strain of a passage through the menacing doors...
...Marie Heath. Weisgal raged eleverly on as Hector Rigoletto, male witch extraordinaire, Abelard, and Aristotle; but the real orchids must be saved for Mrs. Heath, who gave a delightfully British performance as Emma Seruple-Madison and brought the show to its humorous climax with a skillfully executed drunken laugh, spin, and fall...
Nominations for the presidium of China's National Assembly were closed, or so everyone supposed, when up rose Ma Ching-oung, a rebel from the west. Ma could spin a prayer wheel, but he had never heard of Robert's Rules of Order. Wrapped in his purple lama's robe, his sharp eyes aglitter and his skinny arms aflutter, the delegate from Sikang Province cried hotly into the mike...