Word: spun
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Giggling and snorting wildly, he spun me around in a patently unpleasant manner, grunting "Ummm, yuk yuk, a fresh one, yuk yuk!" I was just about to try vomiting in self-defense when someone pre-empted me by incapacitating my assailant with a wide swing of one of her suede Nancy Sinatra boots. As he slumped forward, I fell safely to the pavement and ran as fast as I could...
...when UMass forward Virginia Armstrong spun through a hoard of Crimson defenders and flipped a shot past Harvard goalie Kelly Dermody with four minutes left in the game, the entire team stared in disbelief...
...next five years bought them a piece of pop immortality that was recently reconfirmed when they were among the first ten acts to be voted into rock's new hall of fame. When it was happening, though, all that history took on a kind of centrifugal force that spun the brothers around and, eventually, tipped them off balance...
...news conference and in separate interviews, freed prisoners spoke of assault and deprivation, tear gas and water-hosings. One of them, 24-year-old Sidney Molekane from Johannesburg's Black township of Soweto, said he was suspended from a broomstick with his hands and feet cuffed together and spun around...
...comets are simply hurtling hunks of ice, where do they come from, and how do they get here? The same year that Whipple spun his theory of cosmic snowballs, Dutch Astronomer Jan Oort conceived of a kind of enormous warehouse for comets, which would come to be known as the Oort Cloud. Basing his calculations on the shape of cometary orbits and the number of new comets observed each year, Oort postulated that the cloud surrounds the solar system in a vast region 30,000 to 100,000 astronomical units from the sun (one AU is about 93 million miles...