Word: twirls
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...Persia onto the deck of a Spanish boat, over the blue waving turf of the Mediterranean, through Spain to England. Here, half the world away from China, yokels at twilight gathered on a sward, awninged by oak trees, bordered by oak-beamed cottages, breathed hard and bent over to twirl great wooden spheres-bowls, they called them in England...
...Cutts '28 is slated to twirl for Harvard, while Slayton, will be in the box for the visitors...
...Sejm assembles. Only Minister of Interior Slawoi Skladkowski sits, alone and forlorn, upon the Government bench. Opposition deputies stroke their beards in satisfaction, twirl confident mustaches, whisper that the Budget Bill will never pass. Once again they tear it to tatters in a furious debate. At last the President of the Sejm calls for the final vote...
Because quaint windmills slowly twirl on the famed Island of Marken, tourists forget that nearby Amsterdam is as populous as Boston. Legend has made the Netherlands "a little country." Therefore when news came last week of fresh Communist outbreaks in the Dutch East Indies, few U. S. citizens realized that almost half as many humans live under the Dutch flag as under the Stars and Stripes...
First the box would twirl down six stories to the flagpole, then four more to the marquee over the sidewalk. There was a mesh of strong wire over the upper side of the marquee to protect the glass from things that might be dropped out of windows. Yes, the box would probably be broken to bits. It would frighten that woman? in the car in front of the hotel; it would make the traveling salesman** in front of the drugstore jump out of his skin. Slowly, cautiously, Mrs. Barron began to lower the box out of the window...