Word: piked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ordered to replace Lt. Comdr. Maurice B. Hinman, USN, recently detached to report as instructor of Ordnance and Gunnery at the U. S. Naval Academy, Lt. Joseph W. Pike, USNR, reported yesterday for staff duty with the Naval ROTC...
...arrival there was a touch of formality. "Mr. Harry Hopkins," said the Old Fisherman, "Meet Mr. Donald MacKenzie." The fishing got even better: "You certainly know the holes for these beauties," he told Guide MacKenzie. All in all, around 100 bass were taken (biggest: 4 lb. 2 oz.), five pike and pickerel. The Old Fisherman got most of them. Some others who wet a hook: Admiral William D. Leahy, Vice Admiral Wilson Brown, Major General Edwin M. Watson, Rear Admiral Ross McIntyre, James F. Byrnes...
...needed : her husband is in the Army, she lives alone. But against the day when her soldier comes home on furlough the 350-lb. locker is packed with good things to eat - parts of two sheep, big pieces of beef and pork, five fat chickens, some wall-eyed pike, a panful of crappies, asparagus, beans, peaches...
...official executioner for the State of Mississippi, pulls the switches of the only portable electric chair in the world: a new $4,000 contraption on a truck with portable generator, chair, helmet, straps and electrodes. Last week Jimmy and his driver drove their silver-painted exterminator to the Pike County jail. Just before dawn Jimmy dispatched his 14th "client" - one Sam Porter who had slashed a throat too deeply and who, as he sat in the new chair, admonished "all young people to stay away from bad company...
...remember Sweet Betsy from Pike...