Word: spiralled
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...COULDN'T resist a recent offer to take a guided tour of Harvard's central kitchen, located somewhere beneath Eliot and Kirkland Houses. Following Paul DuFour, assistant director of the kitchen, down a dizzying spiral staircase, we arrived somewhat disoriented in a maze of underground tunnels...
...ground-chewing effort by Tom Winn put quarterback Kubacki in fine field position for a TD aerial. Kubacki complied with a 10-yard spiral to halfback Reid Daumon, leaving coach O'Brien with his go for broke position. O'Brien, who admits, "We were in a pressure cooker," chose the two-point option that climaxed the successful effort...
...most Americans, land-price inflation costs more than it is worth. For the homeowner, a rise in the value of his house is purely theoretical profit until he sells, but the land spiral meanwhile helps raise the price of almost everything that he must buy. Packing plants, bakeries, supermarkets, movie theaters, filling stations, widget makers -all pass on to their customers the rising prices-and taxes-that their owners must pay for the land on which they set up shop...
Then, trying to explain the origins of recent political skulduggery, Nixon sought to link the Watergate case with the civil disobedience of the 1960s, which, he said, "brought a rising spiral of violence and fear, of riots and arson and bombings, all in the name of peace and justice . . . The notion that the end justifies the means proved contagious...
economy overseas should translate itself into strength at home. Higher prices for the dollar should discourage speculative foreign bidding for American agriculture commodities, thus somewhat re straining the food-price spiral. A stronger dollar would also mean that American consumers would have to put up fewer greenbacks for imports like Japanese cars and French wines, and U.S. manufacturers would have to pay less for high-priced, short-supply items from abroad like Ghanaian cocoa and Australian wool, thereby relieving domestic inflationary pressure...