Word: spun
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Just a few days after he had claimed he would be racing for another 15 years, Driver Harry Schell, a perennial 39, was killed when his Cooper spun off Britain's Silverstone course on a trial run for the International Trophy Race. Born in Paris of American parents, Schell fought as a tail gunner in the Finnish air force against Russia in 1939, later earned a reputation for being as carefree off the track as he was prudent on it, made a career of finishing well up in the pack but seldom in front. Said Britain's Stirling...
Freed & Upper Darby. As the committee got ready for more questions this week. Counsel Robert Lishman leaked the news that ex-Jockey Alan Freed, who himself was spun off the ABC turntables for payola (TIME. Nov. 30), had impugned Clark's purity in closed session. Despite everything, at least one group was willing to stick by its boyman: the senior class of Philadelphia's suburban Upper Darby High School wanted to present Clark with a certificate of honor last week "because he talks to us like we are people." But Clark, talking to Congressmen almost as if they...
...ready to hit it, I thought of my father. It happens millions of times when I have a tough shot. He kept saying to me: 'Just take it back slow and it will come off. Slow and deliberate.' The six-iron hit to the right of the pin, spun around and almost hit the cup. It was six feet from the hole. I was lining up the putt, trying to get a few breaths of fresh air?like I was spending a nice day in the country. The putt dropped for my winning birdie...
Gold, rather than purple, was Russia's royal color. Catherine the Great was married in a sylph-waisted, fairy-tale gown of spun gold embroidered with silver. When Ivan the Terrible broke the Tartar's grip on the Volga, he had the Crown of Kazan fashioned out of gold filigree, every contour of which mirrors the onion-topped domes of the Kremlin's shrine of St. Basil. The Great Hall of St. George in the Grand Kremlin Palace is a massive-pillared, arching vault lit by gilded one-ton chandeliers. The last Czar, Nicholas II, could boast...
...schooled in political science, the mysteries of utility rate structures, philosophies of education, the physical sciences, high finance, health and medicine, aviation, and other areas where to be ignorant journalistically is to invoke the scorn of our better-informed readers. Never before have people so hankered for the fact, spun out plainly and at length. We need to tell the story of our age in simple, living language with precise meanings. We will not only inform but we will educate a generation...