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• n  a Greek sandwich: sliced roast lamb with onion and tomato stuffed into pita bread
• n  rotating mechanism in the form of a universally mounted spinning wheel that offers resistance to turns in any direction

• The pilot sets a course on the directional gyro and the plane follows it.
• Until last fortnight, Death had come to no man in an autogyro.
• Instead, they resist the turning motion, just as if they were gyro wheels.

• gyroscope

News & Articles

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• Irish round-the-world gyro pilot makes emergency landing in Saudi Arabia
  An Irish pilot made an unscheduled stop in the middle of the Saudi Arabian desert this week. Norman Surplus, 47, is trying to fly round the world in a gyroscope, the kind of aircraft made famous in the James Bond move, "You Only Live Twice."
  June 28, 2013 - Irish Central
• gyro New York announces senior hires
  New York—gyro New York announced that Auro Castelli has been named head of strategy; he was previously senior VP-global strategy director at Draftfcb New York.
  June 27, 2013 - BtoB Magazine
• Dining Out: Wraps has plenty to offer
  The restaurant space next door to Le Bakery at Metro Centre is cooking once again. Wraps is the name of the new place and, if the name didn't give it away already, you'll find a variety of wraps on hand.   But that's not all. It's also a sandwich place with several gyro dishes on the menu (regular gyro, spicy gyro, chicken gyro, gyro burger, philly gyro and, yes, a gyro wrap).   So, they could ...
  June 27, 2013 - Peoria Journal Star

Quotes

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• Masumi Kuwata in Leader Times
  The gyro is just a two-seam (fast)ball. Kind of a cutter,Kuwata said.
• Bill Bavasi in Colorado Rockies News
  With Kaz leaving and us not finding out about it until three weeks ago, it knocks you out of your gyro a little bit and now we have to adjust to that,Bavasi said.
• Jeremy Hermida in Sun-Sentinel.com
  I don't know if the gyro was what I was seeing, but I was seeing something that's kind of like a split-finger changeup,said Hermida, who has a year-plus in the majors. "It's tough to describe. I just know I didn't pick up the spin."