Word: spun
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even before television allowed Americans to take national culture for granted, the waves of radio spun together people who had little in common. Radio, more than anything else, made discussion of a singular "Midwest" possible, allowing for common ground between Minnesota and Ohio just as it wove together the states of the Northeast...
...Crimson scored five unanswered tries in the final frame en route to a 30-3 rout. Harvard set the tone early in the second half, as Dave Houston took the ball deep into Brown territory and spun the ball out to his backs as he was tackled...
With the Bahrain deal in hand, Quasha decided to dump almost everything else. The company owned 1,000 wells and 600 gas-station pumps, all of which helped produce more than $40 million in losses in 1990. Earlier this year, Quasha spun off Harken's debt-laden businesses into separate public companies and then retired as chairman. "I've yet to find a business that's had nothing but successes," says he. "We've obviously had disappointments...
...that Pop was supposed to have expelled -- namely, metaphor and a certain mystery? Hardly, and this only underscores the dangers of treating Pop art as though it were a homogeneous movement. Mel Ramos' waxen cutie leaning on a tire looks boring today, and the footnotes to Duchamp spun out by French Pop artists and members of the Fluxus group seem inert when they are not merely silly...
...threw the ball and I felt a lot of pain. I realized I had nothing on it, but I thought it was something I could just shake off and play with it," Giardi added. "Then the next play after that I threw a deep pass, got hit and spun around, and just landed with my arm extended. It just didn't feel right. I knew I couldn...