Word: spun
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...loosened every mood of the deep On him, a child and sick for sleep, Through the long watches that no time can measure, When I drove him, deafened and choked and blind, At the wavetops cut and spun by the wind; Lashing him, face and eyes, with my displeasure. " VI I opened him all the guile of the seas - Their sullen, swift-sprung treacheries. To be fought, or forestalled, or dared, or dismissed with laughter. I showed him worth by folly concealed, And the flaw in the soul that a chance revealed- (Lessons remembered-to bear fruit thereafter...
...mansions planned by Richard Hunt remain rich and beautiful. And although habit-bound Harvard students will continue to refer to the building by the traditional and strangely home-spun name. "Old Fogg," Richard Hunt deserves his new glory. May his name resound through all time from the pages of Harvard catalogues...
Swish! The body fell, jerked the rope taut. Then it spun a little, the toes of De Boe's shiny shoes poised a few inches above a puddle of water in the pit beneath the gallows...
...transmitter sends a circularly-polarized or "corkscrew" wave which can be spun clockwise or counterclockwise as it moves through space. The set also transmits the ordinary type of radio wave...
...jiujitsu, Chuyu Ota, 19, set out to throw chance passers-by met by night in the street near his home, boasted that he would make the number 1,000. Ota's score reached 15. Rolling up his sleeves, he accosted his sixteenth, crouched, took hold and suddenly spun into the air. Artist Ota crashed, dazed, to the ground, was picked up and taken to jail by the sixteenth, a Tokyo police department jiu-jitsu expert...