Word: spins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...three, Galo cannot yet spin the top. He has just begun to cry, and the cousins to argue, when the uproar is suddenly suppressed. Two hours late, the birthday girl has arrived. As Jenny enters, the room is flooded with light and congratulations are shouted. Jenny attempts to look surprised but only succeeds in looking pleased...
Though the first roulette wheel will not spin for at least a year in Vegas East, even New Jerseyites outside Atlantic City are starting to slaver over the promised tourist bonanza. For?say the prophets?it will not only revitalize the old burg of Miss America and Monopoly but also return to the state nearly $18 million in new tax revenue by 1980 and more than $35 million by 1985. No one, of course, is talking about 1984, the year of George Orwell's novel of the superstate Oceania in which betting for "some millions of proles was the principal...
...impatient teakettle and, in fact, combines pedal power with petroleum push. Called a moped (from motor-plus-pedals), the motorized bike is catching on rapidly in the U.S. as a practical, inexpensive form of short-haul transportation for commuters, students, the elderly and fresh-air lovers out for a spin-not to mention the suburban housewife who is reluctant to drive a gas-guzzling, nine-passenger station wagon two miles for a can of tuna. Since it whirs along on a two-stroke minimotor with less horsepower than a power mower, goes no faster than 30 m.p.h...
Says Blaine S. Grant, the 45-year-old owner of Sure Deal Motors in Bessemer City: "Racing's like whisky. Someone will spin me out against a wall and I'll get disgusted and quit. By next Tuesday I'll be looking to fix the car so we can race again Saturday...
...prison classes are a spin-off from a community legal-assistance project pioneered by Newman in 1972. It now provides such services as round-the-clock legal-aid units and high school instruction in legal basics. Street law, which begins its fifth semester next week, offers five subjects-including criminal and corrections law-at six prisons, youth detention centers and halfway houses. Impressed by the Georgetown program, the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration has provided $320,000 in federal grants for similar courses by other universities. Beginning this month, street-law programs will be offered in two California prisons, seven...