Word: spun
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...didn't give a tinker's dam for the auto racers' superstition that green is the devil's own color on the track. With his John Zink Special, almost an exact copy of last year's winner, 30-year-old Pat Flaherty had already spun through his trial heats fast enough to set a one-lap record: 146.056 m.p.h. In the big test itself, freckle-faced Flaherty, a truant from his Chicago taproom, felt sure that he had "the horses" to outrun his competitors. The trick was to stay in front of trouble...
...disaster, and this year was no exception. With only 50 miles behind him, Veteran Paul Russo, pushing the only V-8 engine in the pack (a supercharged Winfield that can turn up to 8,000 r.p.m.), pushed a little too hard. The wicked acceleration of his Novi Vespa Special spun a tire loose on its rim, the valve stem tore, and the resulting blowout sent the racer careening into the south wall. The Novi exploded in a great, greasy ball of flame, but Russo walked away. Behind him, four cars (out of 33 entered) swirled into a slow-motion mixup...
...installed himself on the 76th lap (of 200). Behind him, Bob Sweikert, last year's winner, blew a tire after 325 miles, bounced off a wall and rolled to the pits on his rim; he never made up his lost time. Another car, its brakes locked, spun into the pits, caromed off a competitor and hit a mechanic. Tires kept popping, and the yellow lights flared; three drivers, two pit crew members and two spectators were injured...
...consumer nor the competition. If Oldsmobile, for example, were separated from G.M., it would automatically be shut off from the vast pool of centralized engineers, research, styling and production-line know-how that have pushed G.M. ahead. Its cars would soon be out of date and would cost more. Spun off from G.M., Olds would have little hope of competing with the rest of the industry...
...doings" that so spun the Times's sports reporter that September afternoon cost the New York Giants a pennant and started an argument that may live as long as baseball: Did Fred Merkle really pull a bonehead play that gave away the game...