Word: spun
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Princeton's Ron Dennis, a perennial Crimson nemesis, with 10 minutes left in the third period and Harvard leading 7-0; and Cornell's Brian Hayward, the nation's leader in save percentage going into the contest, at the 13:01 make of the opening period, after Harvard had spun him dizzy on the way to a 5-0 lead...
When Poland was forced to reduce its borrowing, the country began to suffer from a lack of spare parts for the spanking new equipment already in place. Round and round the vicious circle spun. The nation's factories operated in 1981 at only 60% of capacity. To make matters worse, poor harvests from 1974 to 1980 ravaged the country's agriculture, which Gierek had foolishly ignored in favor of industrial development, despite the fact that agriculture accounts for 20% of Poland's domestic gross national product. Moreover, a disproportionate amount of supplies and equipment went to the inefficient state farms...
...Lowell House courtyard, Sophie Sparrow '82 and Collette Creppel '82 staged a "St. Nicholas Day celebration in sculpture and dance." Dancers dressed in red and yellow spun against the background of snow sculpture to the tune of saxophones and a drum...
...connection to the CIA, as he claims, or only with renegade ex-CIA agent Wilson? As these questions are explored at Fort Collins, Colo., during Tafoya's trial, which could last a month, authorities hope, or perhaps fear, that some light will be shed on the mysterious web spun by Wilson that entangles former CIA officials and Western soldiers of fortune who are giving support to the radical government of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi...
...hears stories like this when sitting around at the tennis club, or some similarly benign place, of an August afternoon. They are no more than extended anecdotes, these tales, but spun out at a certain lazy length with persuasive details added by a sympathetic storyteller, they sometimes cling to the mind in a way that grander works do not. Reminding us that quite ordinary lives can be overwhelmed by extraordinary passions, these domestic dramas often thrill their listeners with romantic openings only to chill them with bleak conclusions...