Word: spun
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chairman of Hilton Hotels Corp. (1963 sales: $226 million), was elected the surprise successor to Conrad N. Hilton, 78, as president and chief executive officer. Hilton stepped aside (he remains chairman) only because the SEC and the New York Stock Exchange insisted on separate executives when the company recently spun off its more profitable overseas operations into a separate Hilton International Co. that accounted for $60.3 million of Hilton's 1963 sales. Hilton will continue to head the international branch. Texas-born Bob Williford, a social friend and bridge crony of Hilton, started...
...will be getting substantially the same contract terms that all but one of the other unions agreed upon before the strike began. And since Frazee had already given in on all other demands, his prolonged intransigence netted the pressmen little more than the right to claim that they had spun out the city's ninth newspaper shutdown in nine years to a record 131 days...
...Massachusetts, claimed greater administrative experience than his rival, Lieutenant Governor Francis Xavier Bellotti, who had upset Incumbent Democrat Endicott ("Chub") Peabody in the primary. Both Italians, the candidates tried to ensnare one another in a spaghetti bowl of corruption charges and sales-tax arguments (Volpe for, Bellotti against). Volpe spun his pasta fastah, won in a close...
Njoku's first came four minutes later as he brought the ball into the center from the left wing, paused momentarily to set up his left foot, and unloaded a blast from thirty feet that slammed into the arms of Penn goalie Pete Humberg and spun him into...
...horizontally stretchable, did wonders for men's oxford shirts. Spandex, a wholly elastic fiber produced by Du Pont in 1958, revitalized bathing suits, hosiery and undergarments. But the big breakthrough came only last spring, when Du Pont went one giant step farther with the discovery of a core-spun process (with spandex as the core around which staple yarns might be wrapped or spun...