Word: spun
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...noisiest foes of Senator Joe McCarthy is Herman M. Greenspun, 45, publisher of the Las Vegas Sun (circ. 12,437). In the columns of the Sun, "Hank" Greenspun has repeatedly called McCarthy "a secret Communist" and a "disreputable pervert." Reluctant to sue, and thus give currency to Green-spun's charges, but goaded to do something, McCarthy's office last year asked the Post Office Department whether the Sun should lose its second-class mailing privileges (TIME, April...
...Todd) got to know Catherine (Jean Peters). She knew right away that "Peter Marshall was calling for me," but all he seemed to notice at first was the speech she gave-as well he might: it was a paraphrase of one of his own sermons. Soon, however. "God just spun [him] around like a top and said, 'Peter -you idiot-this is My grandest plan for you' "; and so they were married. After a Cape Cod honeymoon, Peter received a call to the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C., where his preaching of a "redblooded . . . bronzed...
...figure skating the U.S. did just as well. Colorado's Hayes Alan Jenkins, 21, a devoted skater who spent so much time in the shadow of Harvard's Dick Button that he was tempted to quit, leaped and spun to his third straight championship...
...fellows "giving way so as to conquer." Respectfully shielding myself behind their backs, I watched a balding, mustachioed chap talking earnestly to another student on the mat. A second later, the man with the mustache flipped out one of his feet, twisted his shoulder, and the pair of them spun to the mat in a tangle of arms and legs...
...finally had to plumb its own treasury for the eight hundred pounds due. Even then, Wadsworth House was not wholly done. 1783 saw the two wings and the ell on the north side. The brick part was built in 1810 as a separate unit and sixty years later was spun around to adjoin the ell. The most recent change was in 1950 when the east wing was widened and a doorway opened into Wigglesworth...