Word: spun
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nothing to vex him but a drizzling rain and a bleak landscape. Suddenly, as he crossed the Rouge River bridge, he heard the roar of a big car behind him and a Studebaker drew up alongside, smashed into him, sped on toward Detroit. Mr. Ford's Ford spun around crazily, bounced over a six-inch curb, tumbled down a 15-foot embankment, came to rest with the aid of a tree. That tree was a better stopping point than the Rouge River. Spitting blood, Mr. Ford climbed out of the wreckage, staggered a quarter mile, appeared before his gatekeeper...
...Ford Keeler Brown's (St. John's College) proposal, to investigate "the ideas and life of Mrs. Hannah More, an unusual representative of conservative English thought from 1780 to 1830," sounded precious, but from such biographies are spun the rich texture of the past...
Senator William Henry King of Utah: "My son Paul is an intrepid flyer. Last week as he piloted his plane, a Department of Commerce type, over Boiling Field on his way to Dayton, Ohio, he decided to land. The right wing caught in the grass and spun the plane around; out of the wreckage they dug my son Paul, unhurt...
...which are deposited the Remains of a young Lady, whose artless Beauty, innocence of Mind, and gentle Manners, once obtain'd her the Love and Esteem of all who knew her, But when Nerves were too delicately spun to bear the rude Shakes and Jostlings which we meet with in this transitory World, Nature gave way; she sunk and died a Martyr to Excessive Sensibility...
Traditionally a bright-eyed orphan boy turned the two latticed metal globes upon which all depended. First he spun the great ticket globe, from which, as it stopped, a single lucky ticket fell. Then the smaller prize globe spun, revealed which of the 2,596 prizes had been won by the individual lucky ticket just drawn...