Word: spun
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...watched the ball sail into the left field seats, Bevacqua jumped in the air and spun around at first base. He pumped the number-one sign with a finger as he rounded second, and as he trotted around third. Bevacqua pressed both hands against his lips and blew a kiss, he said was meant for his wife in the crowd of 57,911 at Jack Murphy Stadium...
...step by selling its energy businesses to Phillips Petroleum for $1.7 billion. The units sold include Aminoil, an oil and gas exploration concern, and Geysers Geothermal, which produces steam for power generation in California. It was the second major divestiture of the year for Reynolds. In June the company spun off its containerized shipping subsidiary Sea-Land to shareholders...
...earliest and most colorful. It gave birth to the video-game industry and churned out amusements like Pong, Asteroids and the home version of Pac-Man. It saw its sales explode from $30 million in 1976 to a peak of $2 billion in 1982. It spun off famous employee alumni, like Steven Jobs, co-founder and chairman of Apple Computer. Physically, it spread to 49 buildings around Sunnyvale, Calif. But its fall came even faster, as a fickle public cooled to its video games. Losses hit $539 million last year. Not even TV commercials featuring M*A*S*H Superstar...
...declined from three to two. Hurdlers Edwin Moses and Greg Foster rejoiced. Mary Decker found out she could run only as far as the law would allow. And a wound-up Methuselah named Ed Burke took a 16-lb. ball by the chain, swung it and flung it, and spun something wonderful...
After Pope John Paul II was shot in St. Peter's Square more than three years ago, Turkish Gunman Mehmet Ali Agca spun for Italian investigators a web of contradictions, phony confessions and outright lies. But one of his revelations has continued to gain ground as an explanation of the assassination attempt: Agca was hired to kill the Pope by the Bulgarian secret service and, implicitly, the KGB, the Soviet secret police...