Word: spinning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Technicolor Dreams. While his aides spin Technicolor dreams, it sometimes seems as if a great eclipse is advancing on Washington. The President and the White House are slowly being shadowed. Johnson falls with increasing regularity from the front pages of the papers-although he can still agitate the photographers when an occasion like his grandson's first birthday comes up. He is forgotten in cocktail conversation that dwells on new candidates. His presence does not pervade the Government. Events, of course, could resurrect him. Crisis could make him the man of the moment. But as soon as the tense...
...movies almost always portrayed U.S. dreams-and thus, indirectly, realities. Just as the peasant tales retold by the Grimm brothers spoke of common maidens who could spin gold from straw, Hollywood created its own folk stories from the yearnings of 1930s audiences. If I Had a Million, for example, tells of a quirky financier who sends million-dollar checks to strangers. A colorless clerk played by Charles Laughton receives his check in the mail, goes to the president of his company, sticks out his tongue and delivers a loud Bronx cheer. Blackout. In those precarious years, the vicarious thrill...
...stop rolling while the car is in motion, indicating a skid, the sensor flashes an instant message to the computer. Many drivers end in catastrophe after a skid because they freeze on the brake pedal instead of pumping it rapidly and repeatedly while steering their way out of the spin. The computer will do the proper pumping for them in the auto-linear system. With one impulse it takes control of the brakes away from the brake pedal; with another it applies its own braking at the rate of 35 to 40 pumps per second. When the skid is over...
...struck car. Of course, if the oncoming vehicle is a skidding Thunderbird or Mark III, the occupants presumably need not worry. Before the crash occurs and the G. M. guard rail has to prove itself, the Ford model's computer will have taken that car out of its spin...
...frame, the aluminum racket is strung conventionally, through nylon-lined holes in the racket's head. This increases the size of the "sweet spot," the area of the racket face on which the ball can be hit with good effect, and makes the racket less likely to spin or twist on shots hit near...