Word: spinned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more so. He sent Howard abroad accompanied by Dudley Sharp and packing an allowance of $5,000 or more a month. In Brussels, Hughes took a fling at roulette. Playing only red or black, he ran a stake of $10 up to $10,000, lost it all on one spin of the wheel, left the table without a word...
Sweden's Prince Bertil, third in line for the throne, arrived in Chicago for the Swedish Pioneer Centennial, crammed his 6 feet, 200 pounds into a midget racing car for a spin around the track at Soldier Field. He explained why he had not yet married at 36: "I take things very easily...
...Philippines something more than political independence: an imitative regard for "the American way." Filipinos take it to mean hustle and enterprise. Their islands are booming. War-battered Manila is largely restored, with gleaming new buildings sprouting up from rubble. Herds of shiny cars weave through the downtown traffic, spin along the wide boulevard around the bay. Filipinos have adopted some other symbols, too: jukeboxes blare U.S. tunes by day and neon signs glow in profusion at night. In the once-gutted Great Eastern Hotel, new robin's-egg-blue elevators shoot up to a cool, spacious ballroom...
...They'll spin without getting dizzy...
...Riggs played deep on Kramer's serve, Big Jake put so much angle and spin on the ball that his opponent landed up in the bleachers trying to get his racket on it. If Riggs played in close, Big Jake blasted it straight down the middle. Usually, Kramer won his service in jig time, and then began a long drawn-out battle to crack his opponent's serve. In Memphis last week, a woman spectator began berating Riggs for his ineptness. He waddled toward her with his familiar sailor's roll, racket outstretched handle first...