Word: pike
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...California's shapely Mrs. Patricia McCormick, already winner of the women's springboard-diving title, climbed the ladder, and with a superb exhibition (e.g., a running, flying one-and-a-half somersault with pike, a handstand with forward cut-through half-gainer layout) took first place in the high-diving contest. Paula Jean Myers and Mrs. Juno Stover Irwin took second and third to make the sweep...
...blond] hair, an admirable and faultless little nose, blue eyes not quite big enough, chin narrow but a little too long; her face is a perfect oval and one can only take exception to her mouth, which has somewhat the shape and the turned-down corners of a pike...
ROLLAND W. PIKE 1st Lieutenant, A.F.R.C. (inactive) Andover, Mass...
...establishing its distant posts. Picketing set out in search of conditions of atmosphere most favorable in "respect to clearness steadiness, and equability of temperature." He experimented at stations between 6,000 and 14,000 feet in the Rockies in Colorado. Performing work at the higher attitude ever attempted including Pike's peak...
Lieut. General Lewis A. Pick, the engineers' white-haired chief, builder of World War II's famed Ledo Road ("Pick's Pike") through Assam and Burma, came before the Senate subcommittee to present the defense. Said he: There was "confusion" in the program, but the Engineers have ordered construction firms to straighten things out; the job will be cornpleted "in an efficient manner." Considering the Air Force's hurry-up order for the bases and remoteness of the sites, a pretty good job has been done. A wage premium was necessary to recruit...