Word: spike
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boss. The rumors began when he resigned as Director of Civilian Supply and turned the job over to his deputy, Lawyer Joseph L. Weiner. They multiplied when the Truman Committee blasted his administration of fuel-oil rationing. Henderson's press conference was designed to defend his record and spike the rumors-but it did not quite succeed...
Died. Orland S. ("Spike") Loomis, 49, Wisconsin's Governor-elect; of heart disease; in Madison, Wis. A Progressive, he won a surprise victory last month over Republican Gov. Julius P. ("The Just") Heil...
...Wallace for a picture originally entitled Donald Duck in Nutzi-land, skyrocketed so fast that Disney decided to change the title of the picture to that of the song. Also rocketing to fame on the song's beer-barrel phrases was a hitherto obscure drummer named Lindley Armstrong ("Spike") Jones. Jones, whose band, The City Slickers, first recorded Der Fuehrer's Face, found himself suddenly thrust up among the top U.S. bandleaders. Until then "Spike" had been modestly playing what he calls "society music" (jazzed up Chopin and Debussy) at Los Angeles' Jonathan Club...
...Common Sense last week she wrote: "The major event of World War I was the Russian Revolution. . . . The major event of World War II is the Indian Revolution. . . . What are we, the United Nations, doing about the Indian Revolution? We are doing everything possible to hamstring, to frustrate, to spike, to cripple, to undermine and ultimately to destroy [it] What earthly good will that...
...Melman and Jack Dixon, continually retrieving impossible shots, and big Don Lutze, Varsity basketballer, who held up the offense with lighting spike shots, starred for the winning Kirklanders. Joll Kane and Buz Russell stood out in a good Dunstor lineup...