Word: spins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...firing time approached, the bucket, driven by a small electric motor, began to rotate. This motion had the same purpose as the spin of a rifle bullet: to "spin-stabilize" the upper stages of the rocket. It would also check any tendency to veer off course if any of the small rockets in the bucket should ignite later than the others, or burn erratically...
...long hunt for a home-away-from-home for the Dodgers while their permanent park is being built seemed to have ended in the former minor league home of the Los Angeles Angels. Then the Dodgers' rotund president gave the O'Malley-go-round another spin...
Extended Test. In Lancaster, N.Y., George G. Morgan, 31, held on a vagrancy charge after driving 8,000 miles in a car taken from a Victoria, Texas auto dealer, protested: "The salesman told me to take her out for a trial spin, but he didn...
...dance man. His triumph, to be sure, stems from something less than singing, and seldom exactly dancing; it grows from a leg-and-larynx zest, a mating of sales-talk incantation and engaging panhandle stride. And something of this solo zip is mass-produced in the festive small-town spin of Onna White's dances. Prettily singing the show's over-pretty romantic tunes, Barbara Cook provides a contrastingly quiet charm. The Music Man is not pure cream, only nice, fresh half-and-half. But it particularly catches the jubilant oldtime energy of a small-town jamboree...
...kind of phililosophic mystery story that Director Tyrone Guthrie, with his instinct for theater and his itch for new slants, would clearly have enjoyed remodeling. The Guthrie treatment did not mean giving the play a more modern look or a different philosophic spin. It meant reverting to a 19th century mode of acting and a Continental air of high twaddle-one moment for their value as drama, another for what is the outlines of a joke. Since the chief character in Capek's tale of a strange, century-old lawsuit is a grandiloquent opa singer, tasseled flimflam is never...