Word: spun
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...Shack computer in 1978, and wrote a tiny routine for it. (It wrote out the lines to Robert Frost's The Road Not Taken, accompanied by blinking pixels.) "It was a gigantic, eye-opening experience for me," he says. "My first experience of software was literary and it really spun me around. The connection fell into place pretty fast for me: You can do fun stuff on computers...
...they all have their foot on the gas. At the Aurora North mine, a giant shovel fills up another 797B Caterpillar heavy hauler with a 400-ton load of material that--after being spun in what looks like the world's largest cement mixer to separate the bitumen from the sand--will eventually yield 200 bbl. of oil. "A year from now, that mountain won't be there," says Crisby, referring to the black wall of bitumen-rich soil gradually being demolished by shovel, dozer and a convoy of heavy haulers that operate around the clock...
...Though it just started in earnest this year, 3DVIA users have already published thousands of models for those future worlds, include cars, aircraft, ships, furniture, buildings, plants, and fantasy creatures - even a Bart Simpson caricature. Each model can be spun around, viewed from any angle and zoomed...
David Mamet has me in a rear naked choke hold, and I'm quickly losing oxygen. He has knocked me to the ground and spun me on my back, with his right arm hooked tightly around my neck. He is 24 years older than I am and quite a bit shorter, but it has been determined in less than 20 seconds that he can kick my ass. "That was very good," he says, his breathing only faintly increased as I get up from the mat and suck in air. "You moved it from a double-leg takedown to a single...
...citywide petition to trigger the referendum on the closure. Backed by prominent German businessmen, they say the airport is stimulating the local economy and that to pay for itself, parts of the Nazi-era arrival hall - still one of the largest freestanding buildings in the world - could be spun off for hotels and commercial use. Ronald Lauder, the U.S. cosmetics magnate, wants to save Tempelhof by turning it into a fly-in clinic for well-heeled patients from the Persian Gulf and elsewhere...