Word: spun
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Driver Fitch (with Relief Drivers Peter Collins and John Cutts, both Britons) took off from Monte Carlo itself in his Sunbeam-Talbot, spun over his prescribed route through Switzerland, Germany, Luxembourg, Belgium, Holland, and up & over the Maritime Alps of France. Crossing the finish line without a single penalty, Fitch was one of the prime favorites for the million-franc prize money and the Prince Ranier III of Monaco Cup. But in the next test-a series of starts, stops and reverses over a 250-meter course-the Sunbeam-Talbot came a cropper. "There was a small knock...
...Spain's top matador, Luis Miguel Dominguín (TIME, Dec. 22), worked his second with contemptuous skill. Then, as Dominguín casually seated himself on the estribo (the wooden ridge running around the inside of the barrier wall), the bull caught the matador in the thigh, spun him to the ground...
Spinning Passenger. It was this experience which inspired Willy to tack a motor on his rucksack parachute and turn it into a strap-on-the-back flying machine. It was not an entirely new idea. One devised by the Wehrmacht, for example, worked nicely, except that it spun the passenger almost as fast as it spun its rotors, depositing the dizzy victim on the ground in no fit condition to fight for der Führer. Willy devoted most of his postwar resources to exterminating such bugs: he sold his house and car, hocked his radio shop...
Carlotta, the Enigmatic Mother, was a frisky and fashionable actress living a life of frantic emptiness. And the Disagreeable Suitors were a passel of New York busybodies, creatures on the make. From this situation Novelist Sykes, an urbane critic of the U.S. urban way of life, has spun a quiet and thoughtful novel...
...Start with the first word that pops into your mind relating to the product. This word will suggest another word. Simply jot them down as they come to you-and keep writing!" Lesson Seven ("Super-Speedway to Stardom") says: 'You must select the words that are to be spun into phrases and the phrases to be spun into entries. You must separate the gold from the copper coins." By Lesson Twelve, students are being coached in such dark mysteries as the use of the "Mystic Three." Says Shepherd: "Even Julius Caesar used a Mystic Three verb cluster when...