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Word: spins (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...opera will jam some night and halt the entire production. Another perilous moment occurs in the Royal Hunt and Storm scene in the second act. Four human ghosts must descend from 60 feet in the air into the audience's vision, while the giant turntable is about to spin forward, all without disclosing the projection equipment. Any electrical trouble then would end the evening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Win for the Trojans | 3/25/1974 | See Source »

...most people driving means taking a spin the family car. F. Todd Wetzel has a different conception. His "spin" is driving in 120-mile-per-hour professional car races...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Races Pro Circuit | 3/22/1974 | See Source »

...tell me, what else is there left for us to do. You tell me and I'll do it. You show me where I can go to spin the world around before it gets too late for someone like Mama living fifty years just to die on 126th Street! You tell me of a place where there are no old crippled vaudeville...

Author: By Ira Fink, | Title: Mama Died on 126th Street | 3/21/1974 | See Source »

...other hand, Viva is for the woman with more sophisticated international tastes. It is a spin-off from Penthouse--both are owned and edited by Bob Guccione. He started Viva because out of the thirty million Penthouse readers--and lookers--eight million are women...

Author: By Ruth C. Streeter, | Title: Graphic Stimulation: Driving Her Wild | 1/21/1974 | See Source »

Question: With the Miami Dolphins playing in the Orange Bowl, the world's best thoroughbreds running at Hialeah, and big-time college sports crowding the calendar, what is Florida's biggest spectator sport? Answer: Dog racing. The turnstiles spin merrily year-round at one or more of the state's 17 tracks (there are only 23 others in the rest of the U.S.). Despite the dearth of glamour and the shortage of champions that stand out from the pack, huge numbers of gamblers want to wager on the greyhounds that futilely chase an ersatz rabbit around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Night at the Dogs | 1/7/1974 | See Source »

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