Word: spun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will be rare this year. Reason: the Navy's four Pre-Flight Training squads. Last week Iowa's Seahawks, most touted of the Navy fledglings, blasted Minnesota's dream of a third undefeated season. And the man who snipped its winning streak was the man who spun it: silver-thatched, 48-year-old Bernie Bierman, lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Marines...
Greasy, thick-lipped Pierre Laval went home and sought solace in music. He turned on his radio and heard in idiomatic French: "Frenchmen! Take up arms against the invaders and light the fuse of revolt. Ici Moscou. Ici Moscou." He spun the dial nervously and heard London's Fighting French station saying: "Frenchmen, Wait!" He felt better, but not much...
...from center of the universe toward the edge. At that point its spinning motion is 155 miles per second, yet it takes 200 million years to round the circuit. Ten times the earth has been around, clinging to the sun, from which, scientists believe, the earth spun off two billion years...
Suddenly there lay the city, a narrow strip of black below us, on the very edge of the south bank of the muddy Yangtze. Butch spun the dials on his bomb sights. I heard the rumbling of an electric motor. The bomb bays were opening. I looked at the double row of little lights, numbered from one to twelve, like lights on an elevator. They were still shining brightly. The bombs had not yet been released. Haynes dipped the plane up and down, giving the signal to those behind us to attack...
...course record. On three successive holes (ninth, tenth and eleventh) he shot five under par-with a birdie, an eagle and a hole-in-one. For the hole-in-one, his iron tee shot dropped within 20 feet of the cup, bounced a few inches beyond it, then spun crazily back plunk into...