Word: spun
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hair was translucent and slippery as spun glass, his skin white and soft as the flesh beneath a woman's breast, bluish in certain folds and hollows; his eyes gleamed liquidly as pale green jellyfish in shifting rays of sunlight. He lay curied and dreaming like a foetus swimming in formaidehyde...
Since 1835 the Society has provided Scriptures for the blind in both the Braille and Moon systems, and since 1944 it has produced a 831-hour recorded version of the Bible. Its Finger-Fono system plays scriptural extracts on a lightweight plastic player whose turntable is spun by a finger-powered lever. But mostly the word is spread by the Society's volunteer workers and colporteurs, hawkers of Holy Writ who carry Bibles, pamphlets and records by donkey and jeep, camel and subway in 123 different countries...
...farm. Ag students went up there, 60 miles north, to practice planting and harvesting. As mass-farming grew, Davis trained managers and technicians; to broaden their education, it opened a liberal arts college in 1951. Then in 1959, to help accommodate California's burgeoning college population, Davis was spun off entirely from Berkeley to become a general university campus...
...brutal hurricane that took at least 1,200 lives and left an estimated $500 million damage. Last week, faced by his devastated people, Fidel Castro tried to give them something else to talk about by finding a new cause against the U.S. In two separate TV talkathons, Castro spun an Eric Ambler tale of arms smuggling, sabotage raids and mystery ships, and accused the U.S. of waging "an undeclared war" on Cuba...
Instead, their place was taken in the arena by the "gadarawa" (male dancers, usually humorous, affecting outlandish or archaic attire) who spun and twirled and twisted, cupping their hands to their mouths the better to emphasize the strident coarseness of he hoarse cries which they continually emitted...