Word: spinned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Less than two hours later at Canberra Airport waiting civil servants saw the big plane lumbering in difficulties. Its pilot seemed to be getting ready to make a pancake landing on the side of a hill. Suddenly the machine came down in a spin, landed on its nose, burst into flames which sealed all its distinguished occupants in death...
...young men of 77 showed the world that they are not superannuated: Henry Ford in celebration of his birthday took a ride for photographers on the light (12 Ib.) English bicycle on which he likes to take a three-mile spin every evening after supper; Connie Mack (Cornelius McGillicudy), manager of the Philadelphia Athletics, donned mask, chest protector and catcher's mitt to demonstrate the technique which got him a job as catcher with the Washington Senators...
Peculiar to this century is a form of wit inadequately known as screwball. Its method is free association; its state of mind is somewhere between a power dive and a tail spin. It has close affinity with hot jazz, surrealist painting and the deranged poetry of Rimbaud. It calls for an exquisite sense of cliche and mimicry, and a nihilism which delights in knocking over-crystallized words, objects and gestures into glassy pieces that cut each other. Most advanced living practitioner of this form of wit is James Joyce. Perhaps quite as richly gifted in it, if far more inhibited...
...rest free. Flight instruction is farmed out to some 700 private flying schools, to which CAB pays $325 a student for the elementary course. Most schools use tan dem training planes with a cruising speed of 70 m.p.h., but the Stanford unit is experimenting with a spin-proof plane equipped with tricycle landing gear and other safety features. Its first year completed with only one fatality, CAB was rewarded by a 30% reduction in premiums on the insurance it now carries for every student ($3,000 life, $500 hospitalization...
...slimmest of margins. Schrader of Lehigh was a very strong wrestler, and neither he nor Daughaday could meet with a common form of wrestling. Daughaday's standups and drags, particularly the former, were clicking, but he was outmatched in the overtime by Schrader's persistent, under arm spin...