Word: spun
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...innings, but they rarely seemed to justify the cost. By 1959, Campbell had broken the water-speed record six times-and had gone through two broken marriages. In 1960, he became the first man to survive an auto crash at over 200 m.p.h., when his turbine-powered Bluebird spun out of control at the Bonneville Salt Flats and soared 681 ft. through the air. That cost him a basal skull fracture and a $4,500,000 car-$112,000 of which was his own money. In 1964, he scored another first, setting records on both land (403 m.p.h.) and water...
...nice to learn that Julie is a real person and almost like the rest of us, instead of all spun sugar...
Harvard was down, 4-1, but not out. After some nice passing by Garrity and Fredo, Otness spun 270 degrees with a rebound and flipped it over the sprawled lumberjack in the goal...
...Frost's style that was spontaneous; he had to whittle laboriously at his poetry to achieve his roughhewn colloquial effects. Even more interesting is the author's picture of Frost as a selfish, baffling, perverse and tormented soul, systematically creating a public image of a kindly, -home-spun and uncomplicated grandfather...
...widely read Advise and Consent. It lacks the spellbinding novelty of that first book. It is laden with passages that are even more clumsy and prolix than those in A Shade of Difference, the second in the series. But Drury succeeds again simply by cramming his book with intricately spun accounts of domestic skulduggery, international chicanery, congressional conniving, and White House squeeze plays-all of which spell bestsellerdom. What's more, old Senate Reporter Drury (who used to work for the New York Times) this time has heated up a special groin iron for political pundits. The central character...