Word: spun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back at the airstrip, our escorts fidgeted nervously and kept glancing at the Communist-held hills as darkness settled down. As we winged back through the night, the wind from the open hatch spun the dust on the floor in a whirlpool, picked up a small cardboard tag torn off a shipping crate. The tag told the poignant story of the rapidity of China's retreat: It said: "To Mukden...
Sunlight struck Vag full in the face and chased him under a pillow. Groping for air, he edged out from under his feathery bunker only to meet the day again. He spun and twisted his way under the sheets but they rolled with him; the light searched out his eyelids, wrestled with them and forced them open. Vag was awake...
About two months ago, according to anti-Perón sources in Buenos Aires, Air Force Lieutenants "Puig" and "Pereyra" sought out Reyes and a Laborista colleague, Dr. Walter Beveragge Alfende. (Puig was really Police Lieut. Walter Pereyra; Pereyra was Detective Inspector Salomon Wasserman.) The officers had spun a yarn of a highly organized air force plot to do away with Perón. Laborista political backing was solicited. To overcome Reyes' natural skepticism, conspiratorial meetings were held in the Avenida Quintana headquarters of the Civil Aviation General Administration; Air Force General Gregorio Velez, boss of civil aviation, gave...
...reportedly one of the models for Ring Lardner's Alibi Ike characters, and when he got the job last week, Manhattan columnists all rushed to their typewriters to tell what a funny man he was. They obviously couldn't do him justice: his kind of deadpan, spun-out comedy was hard to describe. Grinning with happy memories, the columnists tried to tell how funny it was the time Casey purposely disappeared into a manhole in centerfield, or the time Casey tipped his cap to an umpire, and out flew a sparrow...
...other judge. But his record in the war was one to point to with pride. He volunteered, served with the 82nd Airborne Division, landed in a glider in Normandy, won a chestful of decorations for gallantry, transferred to the Pacific and came home a lieutenant colonel. He spun through a gubernatorial campaign against ten opponents like a maverick planetoid, and became the tenth South Carolinian governor from Edgefield County...