Word: spinned
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...when the platform is varied further, the insect will industriously spin its incubation house, only to find at, the end that it has locked itself out with no key available from nature...
...Sung-yun is a professional storyteller, one of those who, troubadour-like, spin wondrous yarns for China's listeners. At Nanking's tea houses, sipping tea and cracking melon seeds, Kan unfolded a repertory that ranged from ancient sagas of Homeric scope to the modern story of a nude, female ghost that would have done credit to Thome ("Topper") Smith. But spectacled "Dim-Eyed Kan" was too bright for his own good...
Crew started even long before Jess. Founder Henry Durant felt it was "Attractive and beneficial to the girls' health." But the first crews' chief function, other than mastering the elementary principles of rowing, lay in entertaining distinguished visitors. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow once took a spin on Lake Waban; it is said he never came back to Wellesley...
More encouraging was the work of a pair of White backs: Brian Reynolds and swimmer John McNamara. Reynolds, particularly, showed a fine ability to spin when hit, and continue forward...
...whole business much more subtle. The batsman has to watch the ball not only in flight but also as it bounces off the ground; the bowler has many more tricks at his disposal--he can bounce the ball near to or far from the batsman, he can make it spin off the ground and so forth...