Word: spun
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sharply angled turns where a miscue can send car and driver hurtling into trees. He knows the delicate little jog at Maison Blanche, almost midway in the long (2.7 mile) northwest straightaway-where the drivers are at flat-out top speed and where British-born Driver Tommy Cole spun out and was killed last year. "I was following right behind him," said Cunningham. "I saw a yellow flag and jammed on the brakes, and saw him lying on the road and his car rammed up against the gully. You have to concentrate like the devil...
...twelve-car main event, two micros smashed up on a turn, three others spun out, another broke a steering-column pin, climbed a bank and hit a fence; but as usual no one was hurt-in fact, in four years of micro racing, the most serious injury any driver has suffered is a broken elbow. Swarthout, who races "strictly for the laughs," since there is no prize money for micro addicts, buzzed home first in the main race. Afterward, the hat was passed, and the drivers collected $276.72 for the March of Dimes. Grinned Top-Winner Swarthout...
Operation Devil. The white paper then spun out the details of a so-called "Operation El Diablo." Rebel and mercenary "saboteurs, assassins and criminals," it said, were being drilled on Momotom-bito, a tiny island in Nicaragua's Lake Managua; radio technicians were being trained on Somoza's Tamarindo estate...
Feierabend's sled was the next to last to start. Carefully, for luck, he touched each blade-then the Swiss were off. Using Feierabend's simple formula-"Hug the curves high and develop speed, like a dive bomber"-the Swiss sled was soon hitting 80 m.p.h. It spun through a series of labyrinth curves, down an ice-coated chute into famed Crystal Curve (where 24 sleds cracked up in 1950), then whipped across the finish line in a wild flurry of snow as the brakeman pulled to a stop. The announced time brought a roar from the crowd...
Despite Actress Sullavan's adroitness and Joseph Cotten's ease, the romance seems pretty thin-spun and forced. As is so often true in drawing-room comedy, the secondary characters are the most fun. Mr. Cotten's Tory father (delightfully played by John Cromwell) seems a wittier cousin of the late George Apley, while Cathleen Nesbitt, as a great lady who purrs, and Luella Gear, as a career woman who drips acid, also add to the brightness...