Word: spun
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fanfani's agony, Moro spun out the farce yet another day, refusing to accept the resignation. But how much laughter must a politician suffer? A mortified Fanfani wrote again, and this time, realizing that enough was enough, Moro...
...with half a dozen others. After firing a few rounds, his weapon jammed. "I'd never fired an M-14 before," he says. "I figured I'd better learn." Yanking out the blocked magazine, Owen replaced it and aimed at what looked like a moving tree. It spun sideways and fell. "Man, I was really praying then," he says. To stay alive? "Heck, no," he replies earnestly. "I was praying for a clear field of fire...
Throughout the contest, Harvard's shooting was dreadful. The Crimson sank only 21 of 69 shots. The baskets seemed live, and dozens of shots which looked good rolled around and spun out. B.U., however, sank an excellent 53 per cent of its shots...
...Robert Moses Niagara Power Plant?biggest in the hemisphere?also went wild. The power output surged from 1,500 megavolts to 2,250, then sank abruptly to zero. "The needle came clear off the paper!" exclaimed one engineer. "There were more squiggly lines than in an earthquake." Giant generators spun uncontrollably out of step, and overload switches sprang open...
Scottish Novelist Muriel Spark has never been particularly fond of any of her characters. At best, she regards them with amused detachment, and in such finely spun structures of malice as The Bachelors and The Girls of Slender Means, she meticulously exposed their peculiarities and quivering insecurities. Unhappily, in this, her eighth and longest novel, Novelist Spark finally pays dearly for her indifference. She is obviously much more interested in the sights and sounds on both sides of the Mandelbaum Gate, which separates Israel and Jordan, than she is in her characters, and soon the reader discovers that...