Word: pike
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...James A. Pike was a rising young attorney for the Securities & Exchange Commission. That was eight years ago. Last week he was appointed Dean of Manhattan's Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine...
Today, the village (which includes the parishes of Offord Cluny and Offord Darcy) has 536 inhabitants, 129 cats, 70 dogs, 275 bicycles, 46 motorcars, 167 radios and 17 TV sets. It has lived through the threat of the Armada, when 15 stalwart citizens went off to war bearing pike, arquebus and sword. The village lost one man during the Boer War, 20 in World War I, four in World...
Sandrino has one eye on revenge and the other on the girl across the street when Virginia suddenly announces that she is pregnant. In a grisly finale, Sandrino impales her head on a pike fence till it becomes a slippery, lifeless pulp...
...past years, the winner of the competition will be given his numerals and the top 12 will be invited to continue in the spring competition. All interested should report immediately at one of the 8:40 managers' meetings held each morning in the Varsity Club lounge or see Mrs. Pike in the Varsity Club office any time during...
...display, but granted honorable catalogue mention: the 1949 Ford, 1947 Studebaker, 1939 Cadillac 60 Special and 1938 Lincoln Zephyr. Wrote Connoisseur Drexler in an accolade that, by clear implication, also rejected a good many other models that have come down the pike: "These cars contradict the claim that the American public prefers what is ugly, gross, or even vulgar . . . The dollar grin, as the American grille is known abroad, does not represent our best effort...