Word: spun
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...talked so much about "occluded fronts" and "thermal inversions" that viewers wondered if they shouldn't start building an ark in the backyard. Then came the era of fair-weather girls. Preoccupied with their own frontal systems, they postured before the weather maps in the latest gowns and spun out sultry spiels. NBCs Tedi Thurman used to peek from behind a shower curtain to coo: "The Temperature in New York...
...QUEENS. Italy seems to make a cinematic specialty out of confecting De-cameron-]ike clusters of shorts from spun-out risque jokes. This is one of the better examples of the genre-with feral Monica Vitti, delectable Claudia Cardinale and regal Capucine...
Backed initially by a group of Minneapolis investors, in less than a decade Riklis spun together a retailing empire under the Rapid-American Corp., which controlled McCrory Corp. whose 1,500 stores (McCrory-McLellan-Green, National Shirt, Lerner) racked up $554 million in sales in 1962. By then he was vastly overextended. When grandly predicted earnings failed to materialize, McCrory's stock tumbled and Riklis' entire colossus seemed headed for collapse. "God," wailed Riklis at one point, "has added to our agonies...
...QUEENS. Italy seems to make a cinematic specialty out of confecting De-cameron-like clusters of shorts from spun-out risqué jokes. This is one of the best examples of the genre-with feral Monica Vitti, delectable Claudia Cardinale and regal Capucine...
...hardly his last. After his win against Navy, Del Rossi breezed to a two-hit, 2-1 win over Columbia. Army was his next victim as he spun a five-hitter and blew down 11 batters on strikeouts. In the space of two weeks, Del Rossi had limited the three best teams in the East to two earned runs in 26 innings...