Word: pike
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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White-maned, Yankee-hating Edmund Ruffin watched the signal shot burst over Charleston harbor, seeming to trace in its flame the palmetto emblem of South Carolina. He had left his Virginia plantation, carrying with him a pike appropriated from John Brown's abolitionist band (its Ruffin-inscribed label: "Sample of the favors designed for us by our Northern brethren"), to see his dream of disunion come true. This-4:30 a.m.. April 12, 1861-was his great moment. Edmund Ruffin stepped proudly forward, pulled the lanyard of a columbiad and sent the first of some 600 rebel shells...
...agreed to run the form for ten days. In the first two days, a dozen entries arrived addressed to "Secret Witness, Post Office Box 654, Clarksburg," i.e., the police. Some of them listed "reasons" in such detail that they required an extra sheet of paper. Said Sergeant Walter L. Pike, in charge of the investigation: "We'll get around to every...
...Monday morning, until the freeze sets in, nurses at the windows of Helsinki's handsome, modern Children's Clinic can see a pint-sized (under 5 ft.), boyish-looking man step briskly up the drive with a 10- or 15-lb. pike slung over his shoulder. The fisherman is Dr. Arvo Ylppo, passing from his weekend avocation to his lifelong vocation. Ylppo, the only man in Finland to bear the proud title of archiater (chief physician, an honorific designation dating from ancient Greece), is the world's pioneering authority on premature babies...
...foreseen them, would not have led him to approve the revenge taken by followers of Charles II years later. The body of Lord Protector Cromwell was dug up after the Restoration, drawn through the streets, hanged and buried under the gallows at Tyburn. His head was stuck on a pike and exhibited at Westminster Hall. No fewer than ten Cromwellians were hanged, drawn and quartered at Charing Cross as regicides; they died well, too-so well that Author Williamson felt obliged to temper his story with an epilogue that concludes: "For posterity, the gibbet at Charing Cross towers above...
Intrigue put Khrushchev into power, but he acts as if popularity will keep him there. No more beguiling or wilier demagogue has come down the pike in Soviet Communism's 40 years in power. "In our agriculture, Comrades," he told a Czech audience last week, "we see a great progress at present. Frankly speaking, we sometimes experience childish joy in it. Some workers in our trade organization sounded an alarm, saying there are no freezing plants to store our pork. I told them that we would easily solve this situation, which they chose to call a disaster. There...