Word: spinned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...anyone . . . try to survive and keep his family alive, to furnish a pleasant place to live with bits of this and that, to manage eggs from wrongly fed and badly housed chickens, to scrape and tan animal furs for family use, to wash and spin wool, with homemade soap and homemade spinning wheel, to finish the winter evenings by the light of a potato-lamp (with its improvised wick set in melted fat in a hollowed-out potato!). The effort is sure to leave him with the greatest indifference toward the "literature of despair...
...labors. "Holy Serpents!" he growled. "Tell me what [it is] this time?" The job-cleaning the Augean Stables-didn't take Hercules long. Afterwards, he stayed around with the high priestess of Lydia-who in due time bore male triplets. In gratitude, the priestess taught Hercules how to spin, and tied up his hair in blue braids; he was crazy about it, and admitted confidentially that he had always wanted to be a woman...
Running Water? In Chicago, Mrs. Wilson Smith decided that it would save time to be frank about her vacant apartment, advertised: "Dark, dirty four-room apartment. . . Shabby furn." Short Spin...
...fighter escort close at hand. Suddenly one of the fighters veered away from a fog bank, shot toward PerAlemánn's DC-2. The fighter whipped overhead, barely missed crashing squarely into the transport's fuselage. There was a sharp bump and it thundered into a spin. One of the transport's propellers had cut off its tail assembly...
...right to gamble on a sure thing, betters merely nibbled at the rest of the field, sending $15,000 less through the mutuel machines than last year. Then, more or less reconciled to what was almost objective sport, they settled down to watch Titan's free-wheeling spin, in a setting out of Currier & Ives. Titan, whose owners picked him up for $3,000, romped home in two straight heats of the normally two-out-of-three contest...