Word: spinned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drop of gas for their cars. Even "basic" had been skimpy. The driver of a 30-miles-to-the-gallon Austin could go only 270 miles a month. With the end of "basic" he had nothing for a drive to the station, an occasional shopping trip, or a weekend spin in the country with the family...
...Sighting a "flying saucer" high over Godman Field at Fort Knox, Ky., three National Guard pilots zoomed up in P-51s to investigate. At about 25,000 feet, Capt. Thomas Mantell's plane started to spin, plunged downward, and disintegrated at tree-level. The "saucer" turned out to be a weather balloon...
...Spin of the Wheel. The trouble that rising prices caused in 1947 was due in part to the fact that both industry and Government had gone into 1947 with a misconception of the task that lay before them. Both had correctly measured the degree of inflation in the U.S. But they had woefully neglected the inflation in the rest of the world-which was producing far less than its share of goods. What was worse, Government and industry had mistakenly thought that somehow they would isolate U.S. inflation from the world's and quickly cure it even though...
...machine's pattern.* On the fifth day Hibbs & Walford selected No. 21 and made their first bet-a cautious 25?. As their winnings mounted, the crowd of tourists, gamblers, divorce-seekers and hangers-on increased. So did the Hibbs-Walford bets, until $11 was riding on each spin. Their longest losing streak: 266 spins. Their luckiest run: four wins out of five spins. Hibbs & Walford spelled each other in eight-hour shifts. After 40 hours, when Hibbs & Walford had parlayed their $120 into $6,000, the management changed the wheel heads...
...Limit" wheel at Harold's Club, the country's biggest gambling joint. One day last week, after studying the wheel's habits for two weeks, they put $2 on No. 9. By the time they had parlayed it to $7,000, they were betting $19 a spin. Then luck turned...