Word: spins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quarter-spin around the globe from NATO's Europe lies another deferred problem. Viet Nam is not an area in which the U.S. must either deal with allies or depend on them. If there is to be a solution in Viet Nam, the U.S. must pretty much go it alone...
...tooling along the superhighway when the signs suddenly begin to snap up before your eyes. You want to get off at the interchange. But where? There it is -no -yes -better hurry -and you spin into the cloverleaf with the sickening feeling that you're probably wrong and doomed to go miles out of your...
More than 40,000 West Berliners jammed the drafty, bomb-wracked Sportpalast last week, paying $100,000 for the privilege of watching a handful of men in silk spin madly around a banked oval track, for prizes ranging from a few bottles of wine to a brand-new DKW sedan. To beleaguered Berliners, the Six Days serves as carnival, communal songfest and emotional blowout. Only a fraction of the crowd is made up of racing fans, and as one old man said of the event, "It would be great if it weren't for those cyclists...
...four occasions Ku Klux Klan members have driven by the Philadelphia office in pickup trucks, carrying rifles in their laps or in racks. COFO workers report that the Klansmen spin their tires, kicking up dust and dirt and forcing anyone in the road to leap aside for safety...
...when a second was I/60th of a minute. Or 1/3600th of an hour. Or 1/86400th of a day. But all of this assumes that the earth takes 24 hours to turn on its axis, which it does not. By scientists' standards, not only is the earth's spin uneven, it is positively erratic. Between 1680 and 1800 the earth slowed down enough to lose 27/100ths of a second. During the 19th century it picked up nearly 31/ lOOths of a second. Then it slowed down again between 1900 and 1920. And lately the giddy old world has been...