Word: spun
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end the revolving door spun around again to Petsche, who took another crack at the situation-as a "conciliator" between the parties...
Victorians considered sparkling chandeliers the acme of drawing-room elegance, and they would have found Coming's 19th Century room, which looks cluttered to the 20th Century eye, just as artful and integrated as the modern exhibit. An expansive corner window, partly screened by spun-glass curtains, is the main feature of the modern room, where useless bric-a-brac has been replaced by Steuben's simple ash trays and an unconscionable quantity of crystal drinking equipment...
Wollweber graduated in the '30s to chief of the Comintern's western operations. Out of Copenhagen (where he operated from the same office building used by the Gestapo) he spun a web of sabotage. During the Spanish Civil War, his men concentrated on ships carrying supplies to Franco, sabotaged 21 German, Italian and Spanish ships. During World War II, his apparatus turned to Nazi installations in Norway and to materials that the Swedes were selling to the Germans. Under German pressure, the Swedes , arrested Wollweber one day in 1941 and prepared to hand him over. But he casually...
...decks the United States has the same watertight compartments which make Navy ships hard to sink. To keep the ship fireproof, no wood has been used "except in the pianos and the butcher's chopping blocks"; all the paint is fire-resistant, and the furniture is stuffed with spun glass...
Witnesses to the accident said the car had struck the pedestrian in the head with a headlight, spun him, and dragged him a few feet. The spectators complained it took ten minutes for the police to arrive. The victim died on the way to Mount Auburn Hospital...