Word: spinning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Presumably, investors would be happy to have a piece of any company that IBM might spin...
...most footballers would be celebrating their victories--how different from the passionless fullback from Yale who Super Bowled for those tired titans of old football, the Packers. And Babe Parilli, the ageless place-kick holder and former Boston Patriot quarterback whose sensitive hands can now spot a ball (and spin the laces to the front!) three-eights of a second faster than anyone else in the world...
...into dim spheres that are about ten miles in diameter and weigh more than 10 billion lbs. per cubic inch. Astrophysicist Gold believes that a neutron star has an in credibly intense magnetic field that traps ionized gases expelled from the supernova. As the star and its magnetic field spin, the outmost of the trapped gases are whirled at almost the speed of light until they break away, producing an intense beam of radio waves-the regularly spaced pulses. At the same time, Gold theorizes, the ionized gases exert a drag on the magnetic field, and thus on the star...
Orthodox surgery was considered far too risky. But Neurosurgeon Philipp M. Lippe, a former Air Force flight surgeon, recalled that centrifuges-the contraptions that spin pilots and astronauts in order to test their reaction to the pull of extra gravity-had occasionally been used in delicate eye operations. He wondered if the same process might not be used to force the bullet fragment within Barrios' brain into a safe spot in the soft tissue surrounding the upper ventricle. Lippe took the problem to NASA's nearby Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, where tests were made by whirling...
...dominant position in Latifundia, a fictional South American country, sounds like the inevitable background for one more pale carbon copy of The Ugly American. Classified communiques pop up like toast at the breakfast table, a recording device is hidden in a tie clip, new leaders are found by a spin-the-bottle technique, and the real rapport between nations rests on a Jellolike foundation of friendship between Latifundia's President and the American ambassador. Despite the apparently insurmountable handicap of so familiar a scenario, Robert Wool has managed to produce a finely written first novel that explores the personality...