Word: spinned
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When the wind blew, they spun. Explained a spokesman for the Center: "We hoped they'd spin, but aerodynamically I'm surprised that they do." He added: "It's not the greatest substitute in the world for the real thing, but it's so hard to keep real snow around here." Men were assigned to go about inspecting the pins and tightening them up so that the winter wind would not rattle the snowflakes. In an older lore, the care of snowflakes had been entrusted only to the nicest angels; the Rockefeller Center man said that...
...repetitious and overwritten pieces, Editor Goodman manages to show Hearn at his best, but still does not succeed in lifting him into the first rank of19th Century U.S. writers. Lafcadio Hearn's brightest virtues were the human compassion that sweetened all of his work, and his ability to spin out atmosphere like yard after yard of fine Japanese silk...
...Leahy's quarterback is the man about whom the play revolves. Leahy finds that new quarterbacks learn five times as quickly on a basketball court indoors. By wearing sneakers indoors, they have more traction and develop more self-confidence in their ability to spin and cut. At Notre Dame, the gym is also used for pass-catching drills, with passers bouncing footballs off the backboards; it makes Leahy's players more adept at grabbing deflected passes during a game...
...weeks of preparing a political barbecue pit for Harry Vaughan, the Senate subcommittee investigating five-percenters made no secret of its intentions-it was going to spit him, spin him over the fires of righteousness until sin dripped out of him like gravy, and lug him back to President Truman looking like a huge shish kebab. While no formal announcement was made, G.O.P. members implied that church bells would be rung, cannon fired, and flags run up on public buildings as soon as he was cooked...
...entertainment trade magazine Variety, a little dizzy from watching the industry spin, saw still another possibility: the public might say "aw-nuts to the whole thing and [go] back to just playing the radio...