Word: spun
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Concludes the Jenner report: "The Soviet organization [has] continuously engaged in a plan to penetrate our educational institutions at every possible point . . . The Communist agents who spun the very real web of conspiracy and intrigue [in] U.S. Government departments, in almost all cases, were cradled in our distinguished universities and colleges . . . Communist teachers exercise, as part of an organized conspiracy, an influence far more extensive than their numbers would indicate ... It falls upon the educators themselves to devise criteria and methods to deal with teachers whose adherence to the Communist conspiracy, though not legally provable, makes them morally unfit...
...Toil & Trouble. That afternoon, his face pale with cold and exhaustion, 40-year-old Ben Hogan teed off for the last round. The critical play came on the par-four fifth hole, where his second shot hit the green, spun, and dribbled into the deep grass edging a bunker, some 40 ft. from the pin. In trouble, Ben studied the difficult shot from all angles for fully five minutes. Then he hauled out a No. 9 iron, lined up the shot once more, and swung. The ball bounced, rolled boldly toward the hole, struck the back lip, bounced a foot...
...that, things got hotter, and Greek Ambassador Athanase Politis called a square dance. Said an admiring guest: "He never saw a turkey or knew about straw, but he is one hell of a caller." Senator Estes Kefauver, onetime presidential candidate, boyishly hooked his arm around a tent pole and spun three complete turns. The Tennessee statesman, as usual, had a word to say. "Whee!" was the word. Speaker Joseph Martin grinned his friendly, lumpy grin. Senator Styles Bridges rang a locomotive bell and shouted "All aboard...
...more than a year, in the Olympics and in U.S. competition, Sim Iness had come tantalizingly close to the record. This time he got the plate-shaped discus off powerfully and easily. High and far it spun, then came down with a clunk-on the far side of the little red flag. Excited officials pegged the spot, then made a careful measurement: 190 ft. f in., more than 3 ft. farther than the world record set in 1949 by Minnesota's Fortune Gordien...
...Iness jubilantly tossed his towel in the air. But he was frankly a little surprised by his heave: "The discus left my hand so easy I didn't figure it was going very far. I never spun harder, but I didn't even finish with a grunt...