Word: spun
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Story after story, friend to friend, in the bars, on the commuter trains--tales of a Homeric champion spun in the air like plates on sticks, so that they would not fall and smash, so that children might keep them alive ("You'll never forget that"). DiMaggio was both hero and celebrity, the distinction being that one does and the other is. The hero was the player; the celebrity dated show girls and eventually married Marilyn Monroe, effecting the merger of America's two favorite pastimes. The press protected him, and he protected himself by silence. Hank Greenberg observed that...
...Sophomore John Birtwell, last season's resident rookie sensation with a 4-0 record and a 2.29 ERA, spun three-hit ball for six innings, striking out five and allowing just one earned...
...About halfway through the second period, Laing made two incredible saves on an amazing rush by the Crimson. Sophomore forward Chris Bala flew to a loose puck at the left circle. Off-balance, he slid a pass to a cutting Schwefel. Schwefel spun around his defender for one shot and then tried to stuff in the rebound...
Like most choreographers, Fosse spun his idiosyncratic moves out of the peculiarities of his own body. "He was a bit bent and crooked by nature," recalls Reinking, "and somewhat pigeon-toed." The style that resulted, says Fosse dance captain Brad Musgrove, was the antithesis of the expansive approach of classical ballet: "It's all turned in. You're knock-kneed, you roll over on your ankles, you're sitting into your hip, you're arching your back, the elbows are in, the wrists are flexed. You have to work exactly the opposite from the way you're trained...
...inspectors rummaging through his country in search of concealed weapons were no more than CIA agents working for Washington. Saddam is a poor candidate for victimhood, but last week his protests got a boost as a leak-and-leak-again battle between the U.N. and the U.S. spun out. The suggestion: U.S. spies had used UNSCOM, a purportedly neutral U.N. commission, to collect lethal targeting intelligence about Saddam while masquerading as independent inspectors. It was a shocking charge--as if Girl Scouts peddling cookies were also casing your house for a burglary--and American officials were quick to shoot back...