Word: spun
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...select few may have actually spun the wheel and clapped along with Vanna; fewer still are those who realize that the value of a letter is actually inversely proportional to its frequency. Your immediate wealth increases when five "S"s appear on the board, but in the long run, those "S"s really won't narrow down the identity of word as much as a single "Q" might...
...personal protector may now feel read out of the faith. Addressing charges of shunning, threats and even physical abuse against Shugdenites, American Dalai Lama adviser John Ackerly admits that "there have been cases of harassment," all condemned by the High Lama. The most tragic sign that the dispute has spun out of control was the apparently ritual 1997 stabbing of three high anti-Shugden monks in the exile capital of Dharamsala, India. The killers escaped, but Indian police traced a call they made to a pro-Shugden organization in New Delhi...
...AVENGERS (Aug. 14). Can a hit spy caper be spun out of a '60s TV series that few saw and fewer remember? Maybe not, but savor the swank cast: Ralph Fiennes, Uma Thurman and evil Sean Connery--finally the anti-Bond...
DIED. WRIGHT MORRIS, 88, writer-photographer of the middle-American gothic, who spun Fargo-like tales of small-town strangeness about his native Nebraska; in Mill Valley, Calif. His 33 books netted awards, but his plainspoken prose didn't sell well, dooming Morris to the dubious distinction of being one of America's most admired but least read men of letters...
...which an explosion was rigged to show the alleged safety problems in some General Motors trucks. It was an embarrassing black eye for the new program, but it prompted NBC to bring in a fresh executive producer, Neal Shapiro, who put the show on a winning road. Dateline spun stories off the day's news more often than its rivals (particularly on high-impact tabloid stories like O.J. Simpson and JonBenet Ramsey); had a looser, more viewer-friendly format, with regular features like Pauley's Timeline quizzes; and kept filling weak spots in NBC's schedule. This season three...