Word: spun
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Greek ambassador's reception, then hurried on to Secretary Dulles' official dinner. Queen Frederika, wearing a cream satin gown, a diamond coronet and the Greek army's Cross of Bravery, bravely tackled the lobster thermidor, roast pheasant, Smithfield ham mousse, marron bombe on nests of spun sugar and three wines. Next morning Their Majesties were up early for a whirlwind tour of the Naval Academy at Annapolis...
...level of 200 feet, the engine stopped dead. Obedient to the untested theory they had been taught, and against all their natural instincts, the two tilted the copter downward and dived it at full speed straight for the ground. It worked: 20 feet from the ground the rotor blades, spun by the dive, acquired enough lift to break the fall. The craft smashed up, but Harman and his friend walked away, "just as the fire engines and ambulances came roaring...
...June, LaPointe and Awatter returned to the dark blue mountain; this time the needle spun even more wildly than before. "We struck it rich," cried Awatter. But LaPointe restrained his enthusiasm until they could rent a float plane and land on a small lake to take a closer look at the mountain. "It was nearly all metal," said LaPointe...
...speed was too great; tires shrieking, the Ted Ferrari slid out of control, spun wildly around. Two cars howled past, one nicking Ascari's stalled machine. A third slammed into him, and both cars hurtled off the track. The crowd raised a long, audible sigh when the two cars came to a stop and both drivers scrambled from the wreckage unhurt. The rest of the field swept on, and Ascari's arch rival Juan Fangio won in a Maserati...
...from all over the world poured into the little Umbrian town for two days of special services and speeches. In the triumphant procession that climaxed the celebration, behind long lines of tonsured friars and bundled nuns, five relics of the saint were borne; a ball of yarn she had spun, a chip of her bones, a skein of hair cut off by St. Francis, her brown mantle, and the rough tunic she wore...