Word: spun
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...purpose of the academic fad, Willson explained, is to determine under what conditions a thrown egg will break. "For example, we can try and find out if the eggs break more easily when thrown onto grass at different angles or when spun. Now that the children's interest is aroused, there will be no stopping the questions." He was right. When only two of the 23 eggs thrown at Willson broke upon hitting the grass, his pupils were incredulous. "My mum won't understand this experiment," said a 13-year-old girl. "She is always dropping eggs...
Through their toy films, the Eameses have examined everyday objects by illustrating the objects' characteristics; tops are to be spun, not to sit on the shelf. So for seven minutes the audience delights in watching whirling tops of different colors and nationalities. A snow-flake top from India splits and becomes five tops spinning at once. There is no narration; a musical score anticipates the spinning function found even in a jack or thumbtack...
...selection was announced to a few key Senators shortly before the press was informed. But this time Nixon personally met the nominee and chatted with him for 45 minutes before deciding on him. Despite widespread criticism of his role in selecting nominees, Mitchell seems outwardly undisturbed. As he spun a wheel of chance to select Washington's 1970 Cherry Blossom Queen, the Attorney General managed a small joke: "I have a very good idea how we're going to get the next Supreme Court nominee...
Casals had a blazing temper. He relates that when his manager cheated him during a tour of America in 1904, he seized the man, hurled him into the revolving doors of a hotel, and spun him around until the door broke and the culprit was catapulted into the street. "Of course I had to pay for the doors," writes Casals, "but I really didn't mind...
...openly made fun of the Iron Cross?by having his hero dangle it in front of his genitals. Mad dreams of superstates, militarism and the kind of procrustean idealism that makes preposterous demands and holds out impossible hopes for society are inevitable Grassian targets. But Grass has also cleverly spun the coin of guilt to show that the Nazi nightmare was built upon Everyman's petty greed, with its corresponding indifference to the fate of others. In dealing with this, Grass's critical contrivances are customarily subtle...