Word: spun
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...family as it was about abortion. The Louisiana legislation conjures up a world where all children are born into families that will take care of them, whether their conception came about through love or violence. By contrast, the court decisions addressed a world that seems to have spun out of control, where pregnant children have to be forced to talk to their parents. Who would not wish for a Father Knows Best kind of life, where teenagers delayed becoming parents until they were no longer children, where youngsters in trouble could turn to families full of wise advice, where rape...
...eased the control stick back for a gut-wrenching turn and climb, then rolled my fighter above the enemy plane. The California desert spun dizzily when I came zooming down behind him as he tried to shake...
...mourn the loss of a plaster saint. That saint, the venerated one with the windblown corona, was a dried husk. The man who had the great thoughts and spun the strange theories that inspired that veneration was young, full of vigor and turbulence and passion. He was hardly alone; all his organs worked as well as his brain. His household was squirming with babies when he began his greatest work, on general relativity. Einstein's physics flourished not in the absence of life but in its fullness. His scientific life blossomed at the same time as the rest...
During the next year, charges of corruption haunted Duarte's government. The death squads returned; mutilated bodies once again littered the roadsides. And the leftist guerrillas regained their momentum, waging successful assaults on military and economic targets throughout the country. As the country spun back toward chaos, Salvadorans came to regard Duarte as little better than a pawn of the Reagan Administration. That October, when Duarte journeyed to Washington for a White House visit with Ronald Reagan, he touched his hosts by kissing the American flag. At home, that same image came to symbolize the power that Duarte had forfeited...
...Ceausescus were taken into the courtyard. "It was a mere quarter-hour or so after the death sentence was pronounced," he says. "They thought they were walking to a cell, when suddenly there was a huge burst of fire. Elena and Nicolae fell head to head. Their bodies spun round, and they fell close to each other." The Times concludes that the bodies were then placed against a wall for the benefit of photographers -- and history...