Word: spike
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Should a Democrat win, it would spike any attempt to draft Tom Dewey at next year's G.O.P. convention. Reason: he could not afford to turn the state over to a Democrat. Such a result would also give Democrats a chance to boast that the Republican tide which set in last year with Tom Dewey has begun...
Recently Annie arrived in Gooneyville to stay awhile with Spike Spangle, an old friend of her foster father, Daddy Warbucks. There she found that Fred Flask, village ration official, had taken away the Spangles' "A" book because they had used their car to make a 20-mile sick call...
STANLEY WAXMAN is going great guns with his Company Charlie baseball league and some real stars have been found. . . . DONALD KOSKOFF gets posies for the longest hit so far . . . and JOHN BERRINGTON the left-handed marlin spike for this pitching a no-hitter...
...bombers, torpedo planes and fighters roared in with four separate attacks on the big Jap invasion fleet. Eight bombs smashed into the enemy carrier Kaga, three more on the Akagi; additional hits in a later attack, sent both to the bottom. On the same day 17 dive-bombers helped spike the carrier Soryu with six hits and plumped two more on a battleship; the Soryu burned cheerily and slipped beneath the surface with the polite hissing noise characteristic of Japanese etiquette...
Realistic Finish. Perhaps the toughest part of Spike Canham's job was to get out a newspaper in the face of the Monitor's old religious taboos against mention of such things as death, disease, disaster, crime. To Christian Scientists these are "error." The Monitor often had to perform journalistic acrobatics to print the news. Once, unable to say "dead," a Monitor writer referred to "passed-on mules...