Word: spun
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...minutes Soviet Cosmonaut Aleksei Arkhipovich Leonov drifted and spun through dreamlike gyrations while he followed the spaceship Voskhod II in its swift, elliptical path around the distant earth. Then, as easily and efficiently as he had emerged from his ship, Leonov climbed back inside. After 15 more orbits, he and his comrade, Colonel Pavel Ivanovich Belyayev, began the long flight home...
...long, 156 in. in diameter, paced with 800,000 Ibs. of ammonium perchlorate and powdered aluminum held together with synthetic rubber. This potent stuff is cured in a single carefully shaped "grain" with a star-shaped cavity and burns from the inside out. The nozzle is made of plastic, spun silica and fibrous graphite...
FAURÉ: PIANO QUARTET IN G MINOR (RCA Victor). The slow passages by this master of muted color and subtle modulation are like a descent in a bathysphere. New and mysterious vistas open as the harmonies shift. The long-trailing melodies can sound flaccid but not when spun out by the Festival Quartet, including Virtuoso Violist William Primrose and Violinist Szy-mon Goldberg...
...Panch spun onto the grass, and all the way back to sixth place. Dieringer shot into second. But the rain was blinding, and worried officials flashed the yellow caution light-no passing. Then the red light was on. After 332.5 of the scheduled 500 miles, the race was over. Lorenzen was the winner over
...esthetic appreciation of machine-made objects. These off-the-shelf items presage pop artists' use of beer cans and soup cans as objets d'art. His art in boxes anticipated the present-day boxes of Louise Nevelson and Joseph Cornell. Even his dazzling eye bafflers that spun at 33 r.p.m. are the ancestors of today's kinetic op art. And critics are far from convinced that all the ideas have been mined from his Bride, etc., the first industrial collage, a 5-ft. by 9⅔-ft. sandwich of windowpane within which snipped tin and copper forms...