Word: spun
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...irate captain finally convinced the airport controllers that there was no skyjacker. Only then did the cause of all the fuss come out. The flight engineer had dialed the emergency signal accidentally. On the assumption that it had not transmitted in the brief moment before he corrected it, he spun the radio dial and decided not to inform his captain...
...detail, and an exceptionally attentive ear for language the thoroughly human fabric of a war from which most of us are physically and, too often, emotionally far removed. A former base guard and highway patrolman in Vietnam, Casey witnessed little of the action from which heroic yarns are spun. Rather, he saw in combat and heard expressed the neuroses of belligerent officers, the fears and daily preoccupations of draftees and enlisted men, and the perpetual, decidedly, mundane struggle of Vietnamese peasants and their children to live and to grow amidst the never-ending holocaust. The very title of his book...
Harvard's hard core raft-race fans were able to have their day in the sun Sunday. Shuttled and scuttled by a strong tail wind, the eight hardy entrants paddled, puffed, swam and spun their way down the Charles in this second annual Adams House classic...
...highest magnetic readings ever recorded on the moon's surface, possibly the residue of an ancient magnetic field. The readings thus provide new support for the disputed theory that the moon once rotated rapidly and had a molten iron core. Acting like a dynamo as the moon spun through space, this core could have created a strong lunar magnetic field...
...only the opera had possessed the flair displayed by the stage crew after the opening night performance. While the audience followed instructions to stay in their seats, the curtains opened, platforms rolled, turntables spun, scenery zipped up and vanished heavenward. Then another stage rolled out, bearing an army of aproned waitresses and tables laden with complimentary...