Word: spins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fruit Juice Bar nodded in their sad, solemn way; nodded over their cocoanut martinis and cottage cheese; nodded, and gazed into the mantlepiece mirror and watched an age spin the garment of its own mortality...
...best in the league. In the long, 82-year history of "The Game," no Yalemen ever had so satisfying an afternoon. And few Yale teams ever put on so polished a performance. Incredibly calm and casual, Eli Quarterback Dick Winterbauer stood up behind his fine line and lofted high-spin passes that led End Mike Cavallon and Halfback Herb Hallas to easy touchdowns. Harvard Tackle Bob Shaunessy raged behind the weak Crimson forwards, belting their padded sterns and begging them to fight. But it did no good. Even at angry fistfighting. Harvard came out second best...
...aircraft industry learned last week that the Defense Department would pay its bills after all. To 28 major airframe and missile contractors, Defense Secretary Neil H. McElroy sent a telegram rescinding the harsh 25% reduction in progress payment on contracts that recently threw manufacturers into a tail spin (TIME, Oct. 28). In its place, the Defense Department announced a new, less rigid series of payment "targets," under which the planemakers would get at least 80%, and possibly 90%, of their costs for work in progress...
Five years ago this industry-transportation hub of New Jersey threatened to spin out the best remaining elements in town. Newark's long-entrenched, pie-splitting, five-commissioner government was whirling merrily along, copying notorious Jersey City in petty graft and inefficiency. In despair, big insurance companies (Newark is the U.S.'s second-largest insurance city) took out options on suburban sites, blueprinted plans to take their bulky payrolls out of the city. Then early in 1953, a handful of worried citizens, encouraged by the Newark News, sat down to map a counterattack against apathy and decay. Says...
...sagging strip joints, Toshiko Akiyoshi demonstrates that she need not rely on costume for her success. Her own songs-Between Me and Myself, Kyo-Shu (Nostalgia), Blues for Toshiko-come out with a wide, swinging, masculine beat that reminds some listeners of Bud Powell; the rhythmic ideas spin out loose-linked and limber, hazed with a nostalgic mist as delicate as watered silk. It is clearly some of the best jazz piano around...