Word: spun
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Aaron had been beguiling his sophisticated New York City dinner guests with the story of how the widower Clyde courted the widow Gussie Lancaster, a childhood sweetheart who more than 60 years before had moved to California. Aaron, pressed by his wife, TV journalist Lesley Stahl (60 Minutes), has spun his tale into The Ballad of Gussie & Clyde (Villard; 176 pages...
...Undergraduate Council is not the joke it is perceived to be. It has many dedicated and hard-working members who genuinely want to effect change. But until it wriggles its way out of its home-spun web of hubris, it will never earn the respect it deserves...
...student at Houston's University of St. Thomas led to his being fired as a music professor. (He had been fired from another job for similar reasons in 1964.) He reportedly confided to a lover that he longed for sexless devotion, passion without physical entanglements. Whatever the facts, Applewhite spun his own myth: the personal turmoil was the result of his body's coming under the influence of a being from the "Next" level, part of the discovery that...
...soon thereafter, a Yale giveaway coughed the puck up to junior Doug Sproule, who spun around and hit linemate Craig Adams with a nice pass. The latter's shot was even better: a topshelf wrister which beat Yale sophomore goalie Alex Westlund...
...called the "rocket," then a Mercedes, a Jaguar XJ6, a $60,000 Carrera Cabriolet 964, a $380,000 Porsche 959 that ended up impounded in a customs shed because it couldn't meet import emission standards, and a Ferrari 348 that became known as the "dune buggy" after he spun it into the sand...