Word: spun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...happened. The candy-striped tripod spun over, crushed like a matchstick. It was payoff time in Alaska's famed Nenana Ice Pool, the world's biggest gamble...
...Manhattan's Broadway, is the most famous public dance hall in an insatiably dancing nation. Last week it finished celebrating its 25th birthday. Under the electric stars in the ceiling of this huge second-story ballroom, generations of clerks, shopgirls and other widely assorted humans have shuffled and spun to tunes from Pretty Baby to People Will Say We're in Love, Some danced with partners they brought, others with Roseland's mannerly hostesses. Stories about Roseland have been written by Ring Lardner, Sherwood Anderson, F. Scott Fitzgerald and John O'Hara. Millionaires have married Roseland...
...handsome young Marine walked briskly toward Major Crowe's headquarters, grinning in greeting to a pal. There was a shot. The Marine spun around, fell to the beach dead. He had been shot through the temple. A Jap sniper had waited since early morning for just such a shot at a range of less than ten yards...
Details of operation are the darkest of secrets. During that censored number of days when she lies in Pearl Harbor being prepared for her next excursion, yarns are spun at the officers' club ashore and at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel, where submariners are quartered between patrols. But few stories leak out to the newspapers. In no other realm of naval warfare is stealth so important, secrecy so vital. Only gradually has the Navy released the names of some of the skippers, the quietly tough young men who run the lean black ships in the tradition of John Paul Jones...
...only touchdown of the afternoon came on Tufts' fourth play, when Fortin, their left-handed passer, eluded half the Harvard line, spun out of one man's hands, and tossed a 45-yard spiral over the safety-man's head to a receiver standing in the end zone...