Word: spun
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...careened into a phone pole and burst into flames. McLean died in the fire, but worse was to come. On the 200th lap, Pennsylvania's Mario Andretti tried to downshift his non-factory Ferrari from fourth to third, slammed the lever into first instead. The Ferrari spun, slewed into a speeding Porsche, and drove it off the track into a group of spectators-killing four of them...
Mooring latches clicked into place, hooking themselves into Gemini's nose. An electric motor aboard Agena spun into action, retracting the docking cone, pulling Gemini's nose about two feet into the Agena and connecting the electrical systems of the two craft. On Agena's exterior instrument panel, a green "rigid" sign flashed on, indicating that Gemini and Agena were now physically and electronically linked in a steely embrace. It was 6:15 p.m. For the first time, man had joined two craft in space...
Last week the Boschaps performed a rich, tastefully executed program at Manhattan's Town Hall. In Benjamin Britten's Fantasy for Oboe and Strings, the trio of strings spun delicately interlocking webs around the oboe's sober solo; Francis Poulenc's sprightly Sonata for Horn, Trumpet and Trombone was charmingly carried off like the playful banterings of back-fence gossips. The evening's major piece, Schubert's String Quintet in C, grew out of the stage like a tree of sound, alive and shapely in every line. The musicians played as it is seldom...
Vaulting northeast, the twister spun down on the industrial suburb of Flowood, overturning six railroad boxcars, smashing factories and claiming ten lives; one dead worker was left hanging on a fence. At Forkville, Joe Bullock, a Democratic candidate for Congress from Mississippi's Fourth District, was killed when his car was blown off the road. Finally, after a parting punch at Pea Ridge, the twister petered out under the sullen, sultry cumulonimbus that had spawned it. At week's end, with the aroma of pine tar from uprooted trees still heavy in the air, and rescuers still digging...
...looked like a deadlock was imminent, but Murphy flipped a perfect centering pass as the clock spun into its last quarter minute, and Johnson slammed...