Word: spun
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That night 5,500 merry Republicans attended, at $12.50 a head, the inaugural ball in the Harrisburg Zembo Mosque, and Scranton himself was caught up in the enthusiasm of the occasion. He spun his wife around in a Viennese waltz and a polka, went a few fast fox trots with his 17-year-old daughter Susan, who took off her shoes in a display of considerable confidence. Later, Scranton performed a three-minute Charleston solo, causing a startled observer to exclaim, "Can you imagine what the Democrats will do with a picture of Scranton spread out in a Charleston position...
...beginning to tell on the U.S. chopper pilots. Heading back to base after 15 hours of continuous assaults against Red positions one night last week, a U.S. whirlybird suddenly toppled out of formation and, with its red flying lights carving crazy patterns in the darkness over the Mekong River, spun into the ground. When rescue workers reached the copter's twisted wreckage, they found the mangled bodies of seven U.S. crew members. With ten Americans already killed in 1963, one U.S. adviser remarked bitterly: "It looks like this is going to be a hell of a year...
...from 1910 to 1938, author of the 1936 classic on man's idea of his place in the universe, The Great Chain of Being; of a stroke; in Baltimore. Once asked if he believed in God, during a fitness exam for a Maryland state board of regents, Lovejoy spun out 33 definitions of God, then asked his examiner which meaning he had in mind; he was confirmed...
...duty Deputy Sheriff Robert Bollong, who was driving one of the first cars, recalls. "I slammed on my brakes and was hit from behind. My car started to spin and was hit on the right front fender. That spun it back a ways, and it was hit a third time, on the left front fender. It was bouncing around like a rubber ball." The accident-report diagram, said a state highway patrol lieutenant, looked "like somebody took a bunch of dominoes and just threw them down. The cars are pointed every which way. and at least a third of them...
...likes and enjoys the Christmas festivities, went backstage at a performance given by-Washington's newly acquired American Ballet Theater, thanked Dame Margot Fonteyn for flying in from London to take the place of ailing Ballerina Maria Tallchief, posed with the cast in some pictures that looked like spun-sugar decorations on a holiday cake. She dropped by the D.C. Village infirmary for old folks, stopped by each wheelchair, saying: "Nice to see you. Merry Christmas...