Word: spins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that contingency it will be nice to have a man on the spot. There is also, of course, that inevitable day when their man in Havana runs afoul of the authorities for the last time and is sent home. Then, perhaps, he may have quite a story to spin...
...script was written by Dylan Thomas. In its stagy directions, "a stream foams out of the descending galleries and gardens of the tremendous, verdurous, impenetrable high interior of the island," and a "lantern and the moonlight make the bush all turning shadows that weave to meet and then spin off, that hover overhead and fly away, huge, birdlike, into deeper inextricable dark...
...pitch on Jewish holidays. Alston also started hulking (6 ft. 7 in., 250 Ibs.) Frank Howard despite the fact that Howard was 0-for-19 in St. Louis this season. So naturally Howard crashed a two-run homer, and Koufax needed only 87 pitches, 66 of them strikes, to spin a nifty four-hitter for a 4-0 shutout, his eleventh of the year...
...free world's firepower. "You must convince the enemy that no matter what he does, he will be destroyed," says Power. "That is deterrence." The son of Irish immigrants, Power was born in Great Neck, N.Y. He fell in love with the air at 20, after a spin in a Flying Jenny, skipped college to attend flying school, and won his second lieutenant's bars in 1929. A bomber man from the first, he was assigned to the 2nd Bomb Wing at Virginia's Langley Field. During World War II he flew B-24s over North Africa...
...storm season. Her wild dance subsided to a gale-force pirouette, then suddenly spun back to hurricane size at week's end. Though she finally seemed headed out to sea, Arlene's sisters* may even now be waiting in the wings. But when they begin their destructive spin toward the U.S. East Coast, they will be met by a group of storm-killing scientists who hope to learn how to stop them...