Word: spinned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wing. A sergeant pilot on patrol over the Dutch coast flew his Spitfire more than 100 miles home after it was hit by three cannon shells and 30 machine-gun bullets, with a seagull lodged in its carburetor intake. An Eagle reported: "Evading a flak, got into an uncontrolled spin, came out of it in a dive over a cluster of guns, opened fire from 200 yards, blew up an ammunition dump, pulled out of the dive, gunned army lorries and attacked a listening post on the way home. Had breakfast...
There's a spherical middle-aged Gremlin Who'll spin on your stick like a top. . . . -R.A.F. Coastal Commrnd...
...rebuilding. Workmen, slave and free, throw up great strong points of concrete and steel. The spirit of the great Fritz Todt, who built the wondrously interlaced strong points in the unused Westwall, lies over the oppressed land. German gunners stand at their stations in fortress and foxhole, ready to spin the threads of their fire into the tightly woven fabric of resistance to invasion. British bombers and fighters pluck the threads and blast the weavers, whipping across the Channel in great swarms. Every day there is rebuilding to be done. Every day calls for more characteristically German refinement...
...Cocky pulled up and poured three or four bursts into the Jap, whose plane began spitting blue flame. The planes whizzed by each other 150 feet apart and Cocky caught a glimpse of the Jap pilot climbing out of the cockpit. Both planes went into a spin. Cocky pulled out of his, but the Zero crashed into a hilltop and burst into a huge spout of flame...
...crossroad of war for centuries past, neutral Turkey wanted of her suitors all the attention she could get -up to a point. The more armaments either Axis or Ally provided her 1,000,000 tough fighting men, the better. But she did not want to fight. Turkey was playing spin-the-bottle with all belligerents. As yet the mouth of the bottle hadn't turned into the muzzle of a cannon pointed at her and demanding a forfeit...