Word: spinnings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...overcome fall after fall, and the memory of those falls, with the iron will to fly. Kwan skates three 45-min. sessions each day and sets goals for herself at each practice, devoting one session to the combination spin, improving the speed of the whirl and smoothing out the changes in direction, and another session to a jump. Kwan admits that when she has a "bad skate," her coach Frank Carroll will say, "It's O.K." But, she says, "I tell myself, 'You're not getting off the ice.' He knows I torture myself and put myself through all kinds...
...wasn't rocking 'n' rolling that caught young Elvis' attention. "It was spinning," he says. "I saw all this spinning on TV, and I started tugging on my parents to take me skating. When I got on the ice, all I wanted to do was slide and spin and fall, slide, spin, fall." And soon, jump. From the first, Elvis was a jumping machine...
...Daily Spin "You can't get in. Follow police instructions and move on. You are a nuisance." ? Nagano police, to a crowd trying to see the arrival of the Olympic flame...
...Daily Spin "We're licking our chops. We're at the airport, we're at the house, we're at her dad's offices. This story has legs as long as Monica's." ? Lisa Gregorisch, executive producer of "Hard Copy," on the show's plans for Monica Lewinsky's return home to Los Angeles Wednesday...
...Republicans would do better to concentrate on Clinton?s fiscally risky use of the proposed tobacco settlement; although that $368.5 billion deal is nowhere near being inked, the President has already earmarked nearly a quarter of it for new spending plans. The White House has already prepared its spin on that one -- if the settlement goes up in smoke, Congress looks like the villain for snatching money out of teachers' paychecks. With a scam like that, Clinton has clearly lost none of his chutzpah...