Word: spinned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that the U.S.'s enormously expanded aircraft capacity will produce little after World War II except unemployment. Optimists think otherwise. Some expect the personal plane to become as common as the automobile. (General Motors, through its subsidiary General Aircraft Corp. in Lowell, Mass., is already experimenting with a "spin-proof" cheap plane.) But to absorb U.S. big-plane capacity, a whole new industry must come to the aid of the passenger transport lines. Confidently expected by many an airman, the new industry, air freight, is already out of swaddling clothes...
...Diplomatic type he is, too. They spin a yarn about the time he was goin' down to Chequers to visit Winnie Churchill. He'd just been made a full admiral and he was standin' in a railway station wearin' his brand-new uniform. Bein' on the smallish side, the gold braid on his sleeve reached near up to his elbows. A soldier come up to him and says: 'Excuse me, could you tell me what time the train for So-and-so leaves?' Old Splash Guts drew himself up and looked...
...Connecticut they found a big black woman who was "something called Baptist," tried chewing raw tobacco leaf, discovered they were being "kidded" when other youngsters in school asked them if they wanted Germany to win the war. School patriotism threw them into a flat spin. They thought at first the mumbled words of the salute to the flag meant "Routine and Justice...
Exiled Queen Wilhelmina, who turned 61, was promised a destroyer as a gift from her scattered subjects. . .Crown Princess Juliana halted a New England trip at Montpelier, Vt., went to bed for a few days' rest. . . Out for a spin with Ontario's Premier Mitchell Hepburn, the Duke of Kent suddenly wrenched the wheel, slithered off the road, just missed a truck that had turned into his path. . .Ex-King Carol and Elena found Mexico City more responsive than Havana. They gave a party at which Heiress Barbara Hutton and Friend Cary Grant turned...
...missionary to China, 58-year-old Willys Peck was born in Tientsin, has spent 35 years in the foreign service, 31 of them in China. He speaks Chinese, in all its intricate, singsong dialects, like a native scholar, and has been known to spin entrancing Chinese narratives of his own invention by the hour, in fluent, flawless Mandarin...