Word: spun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Parachuter Starnes, said the professors, fell into no featherbed. He heard a terrific rush of wind past his ears; when he tried to talk he felt as though he were shouting into a high gale. He knew "he was falling and falling rapidly," for his body spun through the air "[like] a leaf...
...this everything, M.G.M.'s Lady Be Good has salvaged only two of the Gershwin melodies: the title song and Fascinating Rhythm. Around these still glittering butterfly relics three studio scripters (Jack McGowan, Kay Van Riper, John McClain) have spun one of the longest, dullest plots in many a cinema season...
...before. It took 1 7 months to set up, cost $25,000,000, spread over 3,000 acres, now takes 10,000 men to run it. This Brobdingnagian tool is the' Navy's great new air station at Jacksonville, Fla.-"Jax" for short. Last week, as it spun into full speed, out came its first sample products-three young Ensigns in the U.S. Navy...
...loped around the bases amid a deafening roar, the 26-year-old Yankee Clipper left in his wake the broken fragments of one of baseball's immortal records. Di Maggio had just hit safely in his 45th successive game, bettering the fabulous string of 44 spun by wondrous Wee Willie Keeler (who "hit 'em where they ain't") 44 years...
...freezing of Axis funds, the closing of consulates, the institution of "patrols," the demand for reparations in the Robin Moor case are all spun out of Mr. Roosevelt's determination to get the United States into a shooting war. . . . The people want none of this war. They will have to state this strongly to stay the hand of the war crowd...