Word: spun
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Police said that on Oct. 22, a Harvard student was attacked at approximately 8:30 p.m. when a male grabbed her wrist and waist, spun her around, grabbed her breast and then attempted to remove her coat. The victim struck the face of the suspect, who returned the blow and fled the area...
...Cambridge Common, police said a male grabbed a female undergraduate’s wrist and waist, spun her around, grabbed her breast and then attempted to remove her coat...
...were ignored; what seem in retrospect to be glaring inconsistencies in his stories were regarded as true and valid by some of the biggest names in the field. Other stories that seemed legit at the time--the rescue of Jessica Lynch springs to mind--became so amended, corrected, spun or rewritten that even now it's a little hard to remember what the truth of the matter finally was. We were all convinced that Captain James Yee, the Muslim military chaplain at Guantanamo Bay, had been secreting classified documents in his luggage and possibly spying for Syria. That is, until...
...gathered during the molting season from the inner coat of special goats, the majority of which live in the coldest regions of China and Mongolia. Then the fiber has to be shipped to factories experienced in its production--the best are in Italy and Scotland--where it is spun into yarn, dyed and woven. The scarcity of the raw material has historically ensured a high price for the final product, sealing cashmere's reputation as a luxury fabric...
...Harvard student was attacked at approximately 8:30 p.m. when a male grabbed her wrist and waist, spun her around, grabbed her breast and then attempted to remove her coat. The victim struck the face of the suspect, who returned the blow and fled the area...