Word: spinning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...limit was determined by the period figure skaters can leap and whirl without falling on their exhausted faces. Although Henie has enriched her repertory with ice dances such as her Pavlova-inspired "Dying Swan," her standbys are those of other figure skaters: the Lutze jump; Jackson Haynes (a sit spin); Axel-Paulsen (a one-and-a-half jump ending on the other skate); camel spin (on one foot); double Salchow (a double jump from the inside edge of one skate to the inside edge of the other...
...Okay, wise guy, so I suppose you'd take a five-time spin every morning before breakfast...
...25th Harvard class reunion, Massachusetts' long-toothed Governor Leverett Saltonstall rounded up the members of his famed junior-varsity crew,* took them for a spin on the Charles River (Saltonstall rowing...
...neck.] I bought babies' toys for him but when I held them out he couldn't grasp them. He lay there like a-like a lump of pudding." Jerry grew large rapidly, too rapidly. He never learned to walk alone, could only lurch, spin and sprawl. Almost nothing coordinated. He had to be helped with the simplest functions. When he was put in institutions, he pined for his family. He was subject to fits. Caring for him ceaselessly at home exhausted the parents' health as well as their money...
...Because spins from stalls cause most of the amateur flying accidents (466 in four years) CAA's most important requirement was that the new ship must neither fall off nor spin from stalls no matter how flown. Other specifications: pilots must be able to slam on brakes at any landing speed without fear of nosing over; the plane must be manageable on the ground in winds up to 30 miles an hour; preferably it should be steered like an auto mobile, have no rudder bar. The only other thing expected of it, joked veteran fliers, was that it should...