Word: spun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crowded into the smoke-filled city clerk's office in Jersey City. They were all assembled for a little democratic ritual. Twenty-five cops, loyal subjects of Boss Frank Hague, hovered around the old grey City Hall. Inside, Deputy City Clerk Ben Rosengard grasped the octagonal walnut box, spun it several times, then carefully pulled out a card. His announcement was just what the boys had expected: the magic box gave Boss Hague's foolproof Democratic machine the top place on the city-election ballot, as it had every time but once for 36 years...
...Loosely spun out of James Michener's Pulitzer-Prizewinning war yarns, South Pacific is not a musicomedy; it is a "musical play" in which story moves on equal terms with song, while dancing is shunned and spectacle virtually banished. Story means, for the most part, a romance between "Knucklehead Nellie" (Mary Martin), an appealing Navy nurse from Little Rock, Ark., and a middle-aged Pacific-island French planter (Ezio Pinza). The nurse loves the planter but almost loses him, first to her Southern prejudices when she finds he has lived openly with a native woman and sired two children...
While not so lively or lightly spun as its predecessor, Herself Surprised (TIME, Sept. 20), To Be a Pilgrim has a vibrant life. Together, the two novels form part of a first-rate trilogy covering 20th-century English manners & morals in a half-serious, half-picaresque vein; the last and best of the three, The Horse's Mouth, has yet to be published...
...around her in little rings and circulations of summer tunes. She put out a finger to deflect an emerald beetle climbing a blade of grass and watched it spread its pretty double wings and fly away; there was a long procession of ants running toward an anthill; spiders spun webs; a butterfly opened and closed its wings; the clover, the daisies, the devil's-paint-brush, the sorrel and timothy nodded above her and gave her a peculiar sense of being, herself, a meadow full of grass and flowers and little flying, crawling, humming creatures...
...other year. Automakers, working at high speed, brought out a glittering parade of radically changed postwar models-all square, squat and as alike in appearance as cans in a crate. Out rolled more than 5,200,000 cars and trucks, about 8% more than 1947. The textile industry spun out 13,621 billion yards of cloth, enough to reach 311 times around the earth. Out of the whirring factories came 540 million pairs of nylons (10 pairs for every U.S. woman), 4,710,000 washing machines, 27.3 million radios, toasters and irons, more than 80 million auto tires...