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Word: spun (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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With 1:30 showing on the clock, freshman Ping Li took a pass from Juan Betancourt in the corner. Li, standing at the top right corner of the box, took the pass and left a Brown defender aghast while he spun free. One on one with O'Connell, Li buried the ball in the top left corner of the Bruins...

Author: By Tom Kane, | Title: Booters Ruin Coach's Finale | 11/5/1990 | See Source »

...David Weil and Hollywood superagent Mike Ovitz. The prose is burnished, but not much of the dish is fresh, save for two first-rate pieces -- one by Ernest Volkman and John Cummings about Mob leader John Gotti, the other by Richard Morgan about advertising mogul Burt Manning -- that are spun off from books. The juiciest item is about the marital breakup of billionaire businessman John Kluge. The weakest, a rambling travelogue of Prague, is by editor in chief Jane Lane. Overall, if Details is about night life and style, and Men's Life about home and hearth, M Inc. seems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: A Muchness of Maleness | 10/15/1990 | See Source »

With 20 minutes to play in the game, Johnston snared a loose ball and sent it down the left wing to Kletz. With her back to the defending player, Kletz spun, beat her defender and drilled a shot into the Crusaders net. It was her first tally of the season and the Crimson's final score...

Author: By Daniel L. Jacobowitz, | Title: W. Booters Win Despite Lackluster Performance | 10/10/1990 | See Source »

With time dwindling in the second half, Olken spun around from the left corner and looped a crossing pass into the crease. Weinstock bolted through the middle and kneed the squibbling cross by Wildcats goaltender Molly Krichner into the upper right-hand corner...

Author: By Daniel L. Jacobowitz, | Title: Women Booters Fit To Be Tied | 9/19/1990 | See Source »

...Yusuf Hawkins in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn last year, Watkins' death quickly assumed a larger symbolic meaning. Outside the city it confirmed what most Americans already believed: New York is an exciting but dangerous place. Among New Yorkers it reinforced the spreading conviction that the city has spun out of control. A growing sense of vulnerability has been deepened by the belief that deadly violence, once mostly confined to crime-ridden ghetto neighborhoods that the police wrote off as free-fire zones, is now lashing out randomly at anyone, anytime, even in areas once considered relatively safe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Decline Of New York | 9/17/1990 | See Source »

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