Word: spun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...54th lap, his Ferrari skidded out of control. In the stands by the waterfront, Monte Carlo's glossy postwar idlers gasped and screamed. Igor's auto spun crazily and came to rest, backside-forward against a pile of straw. Slowly, with compressed lips, the prince emerged from his wrecked car, walked with dignity into the bar of the Hotel de Paris and was not seen again...
...Those Dirty Rats." It went off with a bright flash and a stunning roar just as Reuther stood up, with a dish in his hand, to get some fruit salad from the refrigerator. Glass tinkled, the dish flew into a thousand pieces. Reuther spun, staggered and fell to the floor like a man who had been clubbed. For a second there was no more sound. Mrs. Reuther stood transfixed. Reuther lay on his back, industriously trying to move his bloody right arm and deciding, with the casualness of shock, that it had been blown...
When the match began, Phipps spun his serve along the cowshed roof. The ball (about as hard as a baseball with a tennis-ball covering) skidded into a corner and Pierre scooped it out with an underhand chop stroke...
...story as the enchantment it is. A film of mystery falls over everything in the film--candelabras are gripped by arms that move, statues' eyes follow the characters people appear and disappear at will. Realism is never allowed to intrude anywhere. Instead a web of visual charms is spun about the tale...
...almost missed a gate. Her first run was clocked in 59.7 seconds ; the second time, she cut two seconds off that. Thanks to Gretchen Fraser, the U.S. had won its first Olympic ski race in history. The same day, boyish Dick Button, 1 8, of Englewood, N.J., jumped and spun through his figure-skating routine to give the U.S. its second triumph...