Word: spun
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shivering Sand banks. Second Mate Franz Leipelt, officer on watch, and a British pilot were on the bridge. At the helm, Swedish Able Seaman Herbert Tonning guided his ship at a cautious 10 knots through a calm, moonless night. From the bridge came a shouted order. Tonning spun the wheel, hard. He heard the crunch of steel on steel. Captain Karl Hammerberg, hunched over a pot of tea in the officers' saloon, was thrown headlong on the table. He ran to the bridge. The ship's clock stood...
...trainer named Rudy Muller heard them, came running to the arena with a pitchfork and an eight-foot length of iron pipe. He went inside, carefully locked the door, and advanced on Sultan. He stabbed the lion in the side with the pitchfork. The big cat winced and spun. Without a second's pause Muller smashed him between the ears with the pipe. The lion staggered, sat back on his hind legs...
When the wind blew, they spun. Explained a spokesman for the Center: "We hoped they'd spin, but aerodynamically I'm surprised that they do." He added: "It's not the greatest substitute in the world for the real thing, but it's so hard to keep real snow around here." Men were assigned to go about inspecting the pins and tightening them up so that the winter wind would not rattle the snowflakes. In an older lore, the care of snowflakes had been entrusted only to the nicest angels; the Rockefeller Center man said that...