Word: spun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...France in 1918 who do not find the words of the contemporary ditty to be the case at all. The young woman (Michelene Presle), married to a soldier she does not love, becomes deeply and passionately involved with an adolescent (Gerard Phillipe), and around their clandestine romance is spun the action of the finest French film this reviewer has seen...
Woodruff engineered the second Bellboy score by passing to Jim Noonan who spun out of the Commuter safety man's grasp to score standing up. Dudley tried to get back into the game in the second half with Dave Gilbert's running and Bob Whoriskey's passing, but Lowell's Irv Karassik stifled the Commuter threat by intercepting a pass on the Bellboy...
...Bunnies, who have won four in a row, grabbed their slim lead early in the second period when Jerry Galle spun off end on a reverse and ran ten yards to score. Except for this lone tally, Leverett's attack begged down despite fine running by Jim Wykoff and Fabian Bradbury, which often kept the Bunnies in Adams territory...
Kazmaier, a sophomore triple-threat, turned in the game's flashiest play on a fake pass. Taking the ball on a hand-off from the fullback, he spun towards the line, stopping quickly to fake a jump pass. Once the backer-ups had pulled back for the expected pass, Kazmaier took off for 15 yards outside the tackle...
Notably of the mine run is Harold Robbins' The Dream Merchants, which begins promisingly as a closely documented account of the rise of a Jewish storekeeper to movie power but quickly subsides to a spun-sugar saga of love, virtue and clever financing, all triumphant. Where Author Robbins writes as chronicler he has interesting things to say; where he begins to function as novelist he is simply depressing...