Word: spins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sign up Danny Kaye for a three-year TV contract which, to the discomfort of admen, did not have an option to drop Kaye if the first shows were unsuccessful. (Kaye's first show proved a qualified critical success.) Donner also likes to give G.M. cars a rough spin on the proving grounds, insisted that a wooden curb be built so that testers of G.M.'s compacts would know if customers could get in and out easily...
...surprise to nuclear professionals. When the U.S. was developing the first atomic bomb during World War II, one of the several promising ways to purify U-235 was to pass uranium hexafluoride, a uranium-containing gas, through a centrifuge-a sort of souped-up cream separator-that would spin the gas at enormous speed and subject it to high, gravitylike forces. The slightly lighter molecules containing U-235 would tend to stay near the center of the centrifuge, while the heavier molecules containing U-238 would move toward the spinning sides...
...serious because their effectiveness in separating U-235 rises with the fourth power of the speed of the rotor, i.e., doubling the speed would multiply the efficiency by 16. Better materials and construction methods have recently increased the speed to at least 40,000 r.p.m. Up-to-date centrifuges spin in a near vacuum, and they have complicated heating devices to make the gas circulate inside them in a way that multiplies their efficiency...
...controlling the Electra's great paddle-bladed props. And although the Electra is designed to fly on two engines in an emergency, the unlikely loss of two engines on one side at a critical point just after take-off might well cause the ship to veer sharply and spin...
...baseball. He can't wiggle that belt buckle. I get down low enough to get below his shoulder and try to hit him headon. It's easy enough to get to Brown's belly. Holding on to him is another matter. A fullback like Brown can spin you right over, but I can usually manage to hold on to something...