Word: spun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This World. In McCook, Neb., Pfc. Ernest Olivier spun in a jitterbugging step, reached for his jiving partner's hand, plunged out the second-story window of the dance hall...
Absent-Minded Hero. Hero of the book is orange-haired William Ozanne, son of a Channel Islands' doctor. The heroines are the beautiful sisters Marianne and Marguerite Le Patourel, who both fell in love with William at first sight. The plot, spun out to 502 pages, depends on the fact that absent-minded William was no good at names and could never remember which one was Marianne, which Marguerite. Chic, brunette Marianne ("hostesses delighted in the brilliance of her conversation") made indolent young William work so hard that he passed the Royal Navy exams. William was "deuced fond...
...little brown man with the spinning wheel spun more & more frantically, pathetically, for he was old, and he knew with an urgency unknown to most of the politicians he dealt with that until the problem of India's unity and India's freedom was solved, the problem of peace and security for Asia and for the world could not be solved...
...Novelist Edward Morgan Forster had written three books, brilliant, brittle as spun glass and about as nourishing as popcorn. Then he went to India with a Cambridge don, Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson, his friend and spiritual mentor...
Merry-Go-Round. In Saint John, New Brunswick, Alphonse Arsenault plunged, fully clothed, into roaring Reversing Falls, which nobody had ever survived, got caught in a huge whirlpool that spun him merry-go-round while he shouted "Whoops," two minutes later washed him ashore, still whooping, 100 yards downstream...