Word: pike
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pike caught Dr. Smith by transatlantic telephone before the conference had begun, and ordered him to erase the item from the agenda. Later proof of the laxity of British security gave Strauss ample justification for his fight. Nonetheless Lilienthal partisans were furious and still pooh-poohed the alarm...
When the Atomic Energy Commission estimated the power requirements of its new $1.2 billion atomic bomb plant in Pike County, Ohio (TIME, Aug. 25), it seemed too big a job for private industry. More electrical energy would be needed than is used by New York City. But when AEC asked 15 private power companies to join forces to build and run the new generating facilities, they jumped at the chance. Last week their Ohio Valley Electric Corp. filed a proposal with the SEC to sell $420 million in bonds and notes, one of the biggest private utility financings...
Gone are the legendary draveurs who. jeering at death as they twirled long pike poles like batons, rode great logs down white water to the mills. In Quebec's 325-mile-long St. Maurice River valley, scene of the world's biggest log drive each year, the treacherous rapids have disappeared. Tamed by six major power dams, the turbulent St. Maurice has subsided. The romantic log drive of old has given way to a largely mechanized operation...
...Sample of the author's instructions, for preparing a 36-inch pike: Sew into the pike's belly a pound of sweet butter mixed with thyme, sweet marjoram, winter-savory, the pike's liver, pickled oysters and two or three whole anchovies, and roast over a spit, basting often with claret, anchovies and butter. When roasted to a turn, squeeze the juice of three or four oranges into the sauce in the belly...
...best-tested axioms of the writing business is: "Stick to what you know." By sticking close to what he knows, and by being casual about it, Author Richard Pike Bissell, 39, has won a reputation as a highly readable fellow...