Word: spun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Static from the Sun. While the theorists spun their theories, two extra-large sunspots crept across the sun. The spots were many times bigger than the earth, big enough to be seen through plain smoked glass. Asked if they would tangle up earth's radios, Astronomer Robert Coles of Manhattan's Hayden Planetarium said, with a gleam in his eye, that "he would not be surprised...
...rode near and far, high and low, along bypaths and by-ways- for speedily a tale is spun, but with less speed a deed is done- until he came to a wide, open field, a green meadow. And there in the field stood a pillar, and on the pillar these words were written : 'Whosoever goes from this pillar on the road straight before him will be cold and hungry. Whosoever goes to the right side will be safe and sound, but his horse will be killed.'" What happened when Prince Ivan turned to the right, his adventures with...
Blithe Spirit (United Artists) is as light-spun and unsubstantial as a cornucopia full of cotton candy. For people who like that kind of thing, it will be just as tasty. It is 99.9% Noel Coward, with his trademark of fashionably airy dialogue on every frame of film...
...M.G.M.) was intended as a swatch of gossamer, but seems to have been spun in the innards of a Sherman tank and stitched together with a sledge hammer. Nonetheless, it has a spasmodic charm, thanks to the friendliness and prettiness of some of the people who play...
...picture is at its best in the faked but grimly realistic battle scenes. In one sequence, outnumbered U.S. and Philippine defenders mow down Japs by the hundred as they try to cross a barbed-wire fence. Best shot: a body, which turns out to be Colonel Wayne, spun, twisted and tossed several feet in the air by the concussion of an exploding shell...