Word: spun
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...carved canne de jugement, symbol of tribal justice. At Northern Rhodesia's Lusaka airport, Williams was going through the farewell ceremonies with Governor Sir Evelyn Hone, when a burly white man lumbered out of the shadows of the airport administration building. Lunging at Williams, he seized a lapel, spun him around, and let fly with a punch. The blow glanced off Soapy's jaw. Sir Evelyn Hone grappled manfully with the assailant. Police hurried up and hustled him away...
...National Aeronautics and Space Administration last week stepped up its timetable for the moment when the first U.S. astronaut will be spun into orbit around earth. NASA announced that the U.S. learned enough from its first two manned suborbital flights by Astronauts Alan Shepard and "Gus" Grissom (plus, presumably, the limited reports of the U.S.S.R.'s orbiting Cosmonauts Yuri Gagarin and Gherman Titov) to cancel a third planned suborbital ride. Thus only two apparent steps still remain before manned orbit: successfully launching an unmanned but human-dummied Mercury capsule into orbit (possibly this week), then orbiting a chimpanzee...
...Eisenhower, 70, has been the fact that after 20 chauffeu-sheltered years as general and President he no longer knew how to pilot any vehicle more complicated than a caddie cart. Last week-after studiously familiarizing himself with the mechanical mutants currently surviving Detroit's Darwinian struggle-Ike spun a 1958 Imperial through a Pennsylvania license test with all the aplomb of Stirling Moss. Final verdict on the General of the Army by his police corporal examiner: "An excellent driver...
With 100 miles still to go, mechanical failures and accidents had sidelined 21 starters. Most spectacular of the pile-ups occurred when Driver Don Davis lost his crankcase and piled into the retaining wall. Recklessly trying to sneak past Davis' stalled car, Rookie Driver A. J. Shepherd spun directly into the path of Jack Turner's onrushing Bardhal Special. Turner's car flipped through the air in a slow somersault, spewing parts in all directions, and crunched back onto the track. Before officials could flag them down, two other drivers slammed into the smoldering wreckage. No driver...
...applied to almost anything to indicate a kind of beauty and virtue. As Poet Robert Graves explained it last week to the American Academy and National Institute of Arts and Letters in Manhattan, a battered brass cooking pot can have baraka, but not a new spun-aluminum one; an old pair of trousers may have it, or a poem, or a wonderful one-hoss shay...