Word: spins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Vane Effect. In Wilmington, N.C., charged with drunkenness the day after he had been convicted of drunkenness and ordered to leave town, John Cartwright, 50, explained: "Every time I raised my good leg off the ground, the wind would come and spin me around; I had to take a drink to steady myself...
Herman Melville was in hock to his publishers and out of favor with his pubic. Moby Dick had provoked mixed reviews; its successor, Pierre, got savage ones. His readers wanted him to spin more of his early, popular South Sea romances such as Typee and Omoo. Exhausted and distraught, Melville developed neurotic mental tics and jumpy relatives made tentative moves to have him declared insane. His wife was soon to voice her special qualms in a letter to her mother: "Herman has taken to writing poetry. You need not tell anyone, for you know how such things get around...
...beating Ted Weideman, 15-10, 15-1, 13-15, and 15-9, in the number five match. And "Bats" Wheeler dropped the first game before taking the next three from Tom MacDonald, 15-6, 15-8, and 15-7. Rather than employing straight power. Wheeler used many angle and spin shots that caught MacDonald going the wrong...
...blooming plants (flowers are replaced before wilting). Hereafter, the pleasure which visitors take in the agapanthus and the vanilla vines will grow or shrink (depending on individual personality and politics) with the thought of that $60 million. Longwood's taxexempt, gilt-edged lilies will toil not, nor spin; they may invite some musing future Coolidge to murmur: "Some shareholders...
Simply sighting flying saucers is out of date-the big spin now is to spot them landing and to hobnob with their interplanetary passengers. Pioneer yarn-spinner among the neo-Münchausen breed is George Adamski, a self-described Southern California "philosopher, student, teacher, saucer researcher" and former short-order cook who claimed (in last year's Flying Saucers Have Landed) that he stood beside a saucer on the California desert in November 1952 and talked (telepathically) with a tanned, short visitor from Venus...