Word: spun
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) van skidded on an ice patch on Interstate 84 and spun into a full 360-degree turn, swerving into a ditch on the side of the road and turning over on its side, according to Paul L. Rosenstein '92, the driver of a second PBHA...
...conversational self-portrait of the artist as an inspector of milk-carton dates, even for a second, the impression is immediately erased when Joni Mitchell's new album, Night Ride Home, kicks in with the title cut. The instrumentation is spare, the melody light and tight as a fresh-spun web, the lyrics casual, conversational and smooth as a stone in a Zen garden. It takes a good deal of practical education to make something as intricate as her music seem so simple. And -- yes, all right -- so fresh...
...years, American military hardware has been the butt of bitter jokes, taxpayer complaints and congressional investigations. To judge by the cost overruns and testing mishaps, the U.S. arsenal seemed to consist of planes that spun out of control, tanks too cumbersome to maneuver and spare parts with Tiffany price tags. What a difference a war makes. Now that U.S. Patriots are chasing down Scuds and laser-guided bombs are nailing targets in Iraq, the once derided weaponry has become the star of the war. Suddenly, everybody is a weapons buff...
...barrels would be spun, and the representative would choose a capsule from each barrel. The "date capsule" would designate a birthday, and the "number capsule" would indicate the order in which men born on that date would be required to report to the military for physical examinations...
...Rigg spun eloquent puns throughout her lecture; describing the moratorium on acting when the dead Queen Elizabeth was to be waked for a month, Rigg said, "This is one instance where no stone, no turn...