Word: spun
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...carrying the Harvard students spun on ice and crashed into a tractor-trailer truck also heading north, Nedham said. He said the truck attempted to avoid the car, but to no avail...
...ideologue. Born in 1947 during his family's flight from northern India during Partition, Saeed memorized the Koran as a boy. He fought briefly in the Afghan jihad against the U.S.S.R. and in 1986 founded the Markaz Ad-Da'wah Wal Irshad, a religious education and proselytizing organization. Lashkar spun off two years later, attracting veterans of the Afghan war. It has taken responsibility for many hit-and-run operations in Indian-held Kashmir but says it never targets civilians. Nevertheless, two civilians and one soldier died in its December 2000 attack on Delhi's landmark Red Fort...
Kolarik—his legs pumping like pistons as he spun in front of the Yale goal—was able to collect a rebound on his backhand side and flip it past Lombard. The ever-energetic Kolarik was knocked off-balance as the puck crossed the red line, so it was with his helmet half-off and his back on the ice that he celebrated his fifth of the year...
With Deland penalized for tripping, Harvard junior captain and defenseman Jamie Hagerman set up Van Reesema for another shot. This time the shot was deflected to Catlin, who spun around and fired a wrist shot into the goal at 15:12 of the second. It was Catlin’s eighth goal of the season...
...photograph fast became part of the redemptive fairy tale spun by Americans to make some rough sense of Sept. 11. The good guys like Mike saved the day, the evil ones were blotted out, and we all bought F.D.N.Y. HEROES caps and pinned red-white-and-blue ribbons to our lapels to celebrate the victory. But to those who lived that story and now rub up against its shards every day, resolution is nothing more than a mass-marketed myth. Their reality is raw and unending. Fire fighters and police brawl at ground zero. Tales of divorces spawned by Sept...