Word: spun
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...restraint has confounded them. Instead of trying to lure his partners into big, risky new realty enterprises, Zeckendorf has manfully sold one property after another to acquire new working capital. Last week he spun off five urban redevelopment projects in Manhattan, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh to Alcoa Urban Development Corp., a newly formed subsidiary of mighty Aluminum Co. of America, which wants to do a little diversifying in a way that will also promote the use of aluminum construction. Alcoa gave Zeckendorf Property Corp. (an equal partnership between the British consortium and Zeckendorf's Webb & Knapp Inc.) $10 million...
...thrown back. But when she nodded to her accompanist and opened her mouth, her rich, bronzelike voice seemed to flood the hall. Her singing was brilliant and ringing at the top; she impressed her audience with an absolute control that permitted her to fade from full voice to soft-spun pianissimi that hushed the hall to admiring silence. If her attitudes sometimes seemed stagy, she was completely natural and quietly moving in Deep River, Sweet Little Jesus Boy, Stand...
...hence Newman's touch is convincing here as nowhere else. Clifford emerges as a superb mathematician even in the company of the nineteenth-century geniuses. He was one of the last to work with equal success on several mathematical fronts, Poincare being perhaps the last who managed it. Clifford spun out the consequences of the new non-Euclidean geometries and of Abelian function theory; he also gripped the prickly legacy of Kantian skepticism and took to the lecture stand with clear thinking on different epistemological questions...
...White House, rode the tiny elevator up to the President's living quarters on the second floor, and walked into Kennedy's bedroom. The President, who was dressed and had just finished breakfast, put down the morning papers and listened. His expression did not change as Bundy spun out the startling story...
...Mark II generator has no moving parts; yet it generates 1,350 kilowatts of electric power. Dr. Kantrowitz likes to say that his creation is just like an ordinary rotary generator, but simpler. In one sense he is correct: a conventional generator has electrical conductors (copper wires) that are spun in a magnetic field by a steam turbine. Their motion causes a current to flow through them. In an MHD generator the conductor is a hot gas (plasma) that has been ionized by having electrons knocked off some of its atoms. When the plasma squirts rapidly between the poles...