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Word: spiralling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Forty seconds into the second quarter--with Yale up, 7-0--Rogan dropped back, and lofted a perfect spiral to Grieve slicing behind Coppinger and into the right corner of the end zone. That one hurt, coming on the play immediately following a Crimson fumble...

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Rogan-to-Grieve: Like Picking Apples | 11/23/1981 | See Source »

Just 79 seconds later, Rogan struck again. He hit Grieve ("I'm not that fast, you know, but I can really leap") with a spiral on a post pattern just short of the goal line and the senior split end (by day's end the Yale record holder in single-season reception yardage, and touchdowns as well as career receptions) stepped into the end zone for the score. Tony Jones' PAT made it 14-0, and the Elis never looked back. They didn't have to, because nobody was really gaining on them...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Yale Baffles Harvard in 28-0 Debacle, Earns Ivy Title Share With Dartmouth | 11/23/1981 | See Source »

...yard Rogan-to-Curt Grieve pass and a PAT put another seven points on the board for the Elis. The fumble, Callinan's second and Harvard's third of the afternoon, gave the Elis the ball on the Crimson 25, and it took Rogan just one play--a spiral to Grieve--to increase the lead to two touchdowns...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Elis Humble Listless Gridders, 28-0, Tie Dartmouth for Ivy League Title | 11/21/1981 | See Source »

Commercial air traffic, what little is still operating, moves in and out of Kabul airport normally, but the Soviet Ilyushin and Antonov military transports that use the same runway bank sharply after takeoff and climb to a safe altitude in a tight spiral. There is rising concern that rebels armed with hand-held SA-7 antiaircraft missiles may be hiding in the hills around the capital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFGHANISTAN: In the Capital of a Quagmire | 10/26/1981 | See Source »

...there is no word, it seems that Kim cannot invest with self-reference. "HORIZON" divides into two equal shapes--along its horizon. "LEVEL" contains infinitely regressing repetitions. The E's of "TREE become T's, out of which new "TREES"s grow. "INFINITY" is written endlessly in a single spiral so that it reads clockwise and counterclockwise...

Author: By Michael W. Miller, | Title: Trick or Treat | 10/23/1981 | See Source »

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