Word: spun
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French pulled the release lever, no bomb left the ship; he yanked again. Then the officers looked overside, were horrified to see the last two bombs swinging beneath the fuselage, caught in a tangle of stray wires, banging against one another. Instantly Pilot Breene zoomed his plane upward, looped, spun, dove, climbed again in an effort to shake free the bombs. They still swung, knocked, banged. Pilot Breene then sped the plane inland over a wooded swamp, signalled his companion to jump, followed him an instant later. As the two officers drifted safely, slowly earthward beneath their billowing 'chutes, there...
...involve any Harvard students. They had merely loaned their ship to the man who had sold it to the Flying Club. And this pilot pulled his ship into a sharp turn into the wind when he was at an attitude of 200 feet. The little ship slipped off and "spun in." The attitude was far from adequate for any such manoeuvre as a vertical bank...
Blinded by the storm's wrack on the open road, Driver Carl Miller steered into a ditch. The wheels spun, the bus stuck. There were 20 children in the bus, including Carl Miller's eight-year-old daughter Mary...
...atmosphere breathed its spell upon him. This would never do! Death and the graveyard spun their eery way through the network of his brain. An owl screeched in the German Museum. His mind played pranks and he looked down the dismal stretches to the rain-swept pavement below. Suicide...
Coyote. Flying low over a South Dakota prairie with a hunter as companion, Pilot Clyde Ice shot a coyote, landed, tossed the animal into the cockpit. As the plane flew on again the coyote revived, started fighting its captors. The ship spun crazily while Pilot Ice turned to help his friend. He ended the battle with a monkey-wrench - favorite weapon of airmen for subduing rambunctious passengers and panic-stricken pupils.* Pilot Ice got back to his controls just in time to prevent a crash...