Word: spun
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When I was a little kid, my history teachers at the local Hebrew day school often spun grand tales about the fighting effectiveness of the Israeli Defense Forces. We were told how the IDF were the most feared military unit in the Middle East, and that person for person, the Israeli military could kick anyone's tuchus from here to the World to Come...
...TORNADO IS NATURE'S EQUIVALENT OF A DRIVE-by shooting -- random and deadly -- then the pair of storm systems that spun dozens of deadly twisters across 12 states, killing 25 and injuring hundreds, resembled a devastating artillery barrage. One trailer park in Rankin County, Mississippi, looked every bit the target of a heavy shelling after a twister roared through it. The storm, unleashing winds of more than 200 m.p.h., tossed one trailer 150 yds., wrapped another's heavy steel frame around a tree trunk like a coat hanger, lodged an empty refrigerator high in a pine tree and left...
...thinking about a new way to order the economy. That attitude causes a lot of reflection on the past decade. What media pundits seem to be doing this year is investigating their own voting records and thinking about what they are going to do in this election. William Safire spun his wheels in The York Times Magazine. I have the Crimson. But having just turned 21, 1 don't have much of a voting record...
...spun out at every opportunity, whether in shorthand in St. Louis or in some greater detail on the stump, the differences between the candidates' economic views could not be greater. The two candidates' views regarding the recently negotiated North American Free Trade Agreement illustrate that gap. Both support NAFTA as vital for the nation's economic future, but Bush clearly believes that merely establishing a new North American trade zone is sufficient to spur economic growth. In the President's mind, free trade is an end in itself; once established, market forces will determine winners and losers on the merits...
...episodes are loosely structured, with the anecdotal, stream-of- consciousness style of monologue material. One entire show last season was set in a parking garage, as Jerry and his friends searched for their car. In another, Jerry got friendly with ex-New York Mets star Keith Hernandez; the show spun a hilarious comic essay on hero worship and male bonding. "He wants me to help him move!" cries Jerry after one phone call. "I said yes, but I don't feel right about it. I mean, I hardly know...