Word: spun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Marine Lieut. Lawson Brammer thought he saw something dark hurtling through the Okinawa sky. Before he could duck it slapped him on the shoulder, spun him around, threw him eight feet and sent his gun flying. Then it plowed a gash in the ground, ricocheted, hit again 300 yards away and exploded. Unbruised, Lieut. Brammer had cold-shouldered a Japanese shell...
...tune. . . . She was a confusing mixture of sternness, gentleness, and strength of will and purpose. She had borne twelve children, and had buried three of them. When the harvest required it, she had taken her place in the field. She had planted and tended the vegetable garden. She had spun the cloth, and had made the clothes which my father, my sisters . . . and I wore...
...much surprised. But they saw that something was amiss when a stage manager appeared in the right wing. The dancer reversed her field, went bounding back across the stage, flinging her arms and pirouetting. As she passed behind the 78-year-old Maestro a second time, he spun completely around, stood dumfounded. "Stupida!" he exclaimed...
General Patton undressed and was about to get into bed when he noticed that his watch had stopped. He turned on his radio, spun the dial to BBC and an instant later heard a voice, un-British with emotion, say: "We regret to announce that the President of the United States has died." A precise man, the General waited exactly two minutes to get the time. Then he set his watch at 12:15, put on a bathrobe and slippers, and walked back to the house...
Playwright Rattigan (French without Tears, While the Sun Shines) has spun out a commonplace, lifeless comedy about a poor but charming widow who becomes the mistress of a Cabinet minister. Life is gay and she is happy until her priggish Left-Wing young son returns from Canada and is outraged to find his mother living in luxurious sin. He forces her back into virtuous drabness-but not for too long...