Word: spun
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Limbaugh has every reason to believe in America's reward for hard work; he is reaping it now. Born into a family of lawyers in Cape Girardeau, Mo., Rush sat behind his first radio mike at 16. He spun records and made with the cute chatter under a couple of pseudonyms until he decided the medium would never give him a sense of self-respect. In 1979 he joined the Kansas City Royals as promotion director, where he made many friends (George Brett wears a DITTO T shirt at batting practice) but was still restless. "In 1982," he recalls...
...women have a lot in common. Both have effortless charm and a popular touch that politicians would kill for. The camera worships them: Queen Mum in her spun-sugar hat, pastel coat anchored by a huge, gem-laden brooch and a dusting of ostrich feathers; Diana in her elegant column of silk or her inspired off-duty wardrobe (including a Philadelphia Eagles jacket). These women just don't take a bad picture. Perhaps only the Pope is as photogenic...
...Robert Hughes on how the West was spun...
Grandmaison has developed his own home-spun theory for predicting exactly when potential Democratic candidates will choose to jump...
...then there are the breakthroughs that become embarrassments. Cold fusion is probably in this category. So is the discovery, reported two years ago, that under certain conditions a gyroscope weighs less when spun upside down. If that were true, it would force scientists to rewrite the laws of gravity...