Word: spun
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British are foolish-fond of their railroads, as they are of any public inconvenience that has been around for more than 100 years. Sprouting from the main lines, branch tracks lace the map like a web spun by a Stakhanovite spider. One-and two-car trains jog across the countryside as leisurely and erratically as the village gossip on her daily rounds. Except on the crack trains, cars are dirty, creaky, ramshackle and old, though also comfortable in a musty, antimacassar way. Cartoonist Rowland Emett has epitomized both Britain's love and loathing in Punch's "FarTwittering...
...Generally, the defensive system is too thin. Only the Northwest and Northeast are defended in depth (fighter bases covering New York extend north to Labrador). Elsewhere, the jets might scarcely have time to make their pass before the attack reaches target areas. Eventually, as the arctic radar net is spun, other bases may be built in the Far North so that attackers would have a longer, more lethal gauntlet to run on their...
...Force is spending $100 million, has been grounded for a thorough check after a series of crashes. Three of the new 800-m.p.h. jets have crashed mysteriously, killing two pilots, including Britain's Air Commodore Geoffrey Stephenson, boss of the R.A.F.'s tactical school, who spun into the ground last week on a flight in Florida...
...when the Yale line stiffened on the five, but it became increasingly obvious that despite Yale's nine point lead it was a wide open game. On this march Joslin gained 42 of the yards, including a sparking 27-yard run when, apparently stopped by two Eli defenders, he spun away for 12 more yards...
Every time the vicious young bull charged, the tall, blonde girl from Texas spun him past her high-waisted Andalusian pants with a flick of the crimson muleta. When finally she leaned over the bull's lowered horns and killed him, the crowd at the Ciudad Juárez ring went crazy over Pat McCormick, the U.S.'s first professional woman bullfighter. As she paraded around the arena with the bull's two ears that the admiring judge had awarded her, a fan called: "If you could only cook...