Word: spins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meat thrown onto his lawn. But basically, for the man of control, everything worked. Called to the platform at the close of the Games, Ueberroth received a prolonged, roaring ovation from the crowd of 93,000--and felt his eyes fill up and his head take a most unaccustomed spin...
...unconventional approach has served Feynman splendidly. The work that led to a Nobel Prize in 1965 had begun some years earlier while he was watching someone toss a plate. He noticed that the spin of the dish seemed much faster than the rate of its wobble. The observation led to some playful calculations, idle musings about electron orbits and, finally, basic theories of quantum electrodynamics...
ORFF: CARMINA BURANA (London). Conductor Riccardo Chailly gives Orff's Wheel of Fortune a lusty spin...
...designed comet-dust analyzers are tucked aboard the Soviet vessels. Named Vega 1 and 2, after the first letters from the Russian words for Venus and Halley, the two craft are scheduled to deliver landing modules to the surface of Venus in June 1985; they will then spin off to rendezvous nine months later within 6,000 miles of Halley...
...Monsieur fondly on his latest painting-"Put a cat on the divan; a cat is always nice"-and Monsieur replies with a smile that might be a wince. His two grandsons make an ordinary nuisance of themselves. His granddaughter, the lovely Mireille (Katia Wostrikoff), watches today's dinner spin on its fireplace rotisserie and gets caught up a tree. Suddenly, like a sunburst in the middle of a daydream, Monsieur's daughter Irène (Sabine Azema) motors in, abustle with gaiety and impish reproaches. She takes her papa to a country inn for a chat...