Word: spun
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Three minutes later, as the teams broke from their huddles after a Dartmouth time-out, an Indian yelled "They got nothin'! They got nothin'!" Within ten seconds Watts had brought the ball in from offside, spun off his defenseman, Sly, and stuffed the ball into the nets to put the Crimson ahead 2 to 1. Sixty seconds later Sly watched Dave Nyhan convert a Watts pass into the third Harvard tally...
...guard against temporary failure of landing controls, the Vostok was crammed with enough food and water for a ten-day whirl. For low-altitude emergencies, there were two escape hatches and an ejector seat equipped with a parachute, emergency rations, an oxygen supply and a radio transmitter. As he spun past the stars, Yuri could study his surroundings through three heat-resistant portholes. Even if he spotted no landmarks 188 miles below, he could get his bearings by watching an "optical orientator"-a cockpit globe synchronized to turn with the 18,000-mile-an-hour flight of the orbiting spaceship...
...sung in Holy Week Matins. Nonetheless, its complex fabric was not very apparent. In Schutz' 84th Psalm it displayed excellent control of its vigor and contrasts. The Choral Society contributed six delightfully cool and sweet songs by Schumann, the chorus maintaining an airy tone and a group of soloists spun an intricate, but occasionally ill-balanced, texture. Three choruses of Haydn ended the concert on a tender, almost sentimental note. They were, indeed, typical of the evening: sometimes erring in treatment, but often technically excellent...
...five-ton Soviet space vehicle carrying a female dog named Chernushka (Blackie) and "other biological objects" last week spun into a low orbit around the earth. Announced the U.S.S.R.: "After fulfilling the outlined research program, the vessel landed on command at a preset area of the Soviet Union on the same...
Other facts and figures were known: the launcher was an Atlas, and the second stage was an Agena, which spun into orbit, weighed some 4,000 Ibs., including 2,000 Ibs. of instruments and equipment. But the most significant thing about last week's Samos was the secrecy that shrouded it. Said an official Air Force spokesman in a masterpiece of Pentagonese: "The purpose of the initial Samos flights is component testing bearing on the engineering feasibility of obtaining an observation capability from an orbiting satellite...