Word: spun
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Spinning Rabbits. The neuron's basic function is to transmit "nerve impulses" by high-speed electrochemical reactions. Hyden's team devised an ingenious way to find out what happens to nerve cells when they receive a stimulus. The scientists spun rabbits on a centrifuge, just fast enough to make them dizzy and cause the cells in the acoustic nerve and the vestibular apparatus of the inner ear (a center of balance) to stimulate the brain with a sense of distress. Then they painlessly killed the animals and analyzed the nerve cells...
...press conference, President-elect Kennedy was mum about which men he would pick for his Cabinet. That would have to wait, he said, until after his Thanksgiving weekend conference with President Eisenhower. The making of dream Cabinets spun on, nevertheless, and expert guesses from Washington centered on these names and posts...
...Yalie Daily got the only score when CRIME scatback Tiger Welch took a spinning hand-off from Ullyot and spun 50 yards the wrong way to a Yalie safety...
...flashy shirts and black leather motorcycle jackets, surrounded the trembling old man and jeered as he stripped off his clothes at their command. When his underwear was gone and he stood naked, the kids grinned, turned and strutted away. Suddenly one of the gang, 14 years old and illiterate, spun round and stalked back. "Here's something for you to wear," he snarled, brutally stabbing the old man twice, and leaving him critically injured. Packs of out-of-control teenagers, out for kicks or cash, are terrorizing Santiago, Chile. The Chileans call them coléricos-angry ones...
...Crimson struck first after 9:26 of the second period, Martin dribbled all by himself down the left sidelines, and got off a low, spinning shot toward the Big Red nets. Scotty Holmes, the Cornell goalie, confidently went down on one knee to stop the ball, but it spun out of his grasp and away from his desperate effort to retrieve...