Word: spike
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although its honors are many, Battery D can never forget the one time it-had to spike its guns. On its shield is a broken arrow symbolizing a battle at Vincennes, when a horde of Miami Indians scalped all the battery's officers, two-thirds of its men, killed all its horses...
Nothing that happened last week could prevent the spreading of cold rage through an already frigid spike of a man-Reinhard Heydrich, Adolf Hitler's chief executioner. For, clearly, the thousands of tired bodies he had rushed to the rope or the firing squad had not cowed Europe's revolt against Hitler's New Order...
Then Coach Spike Nelson said that he favored athletic scholarships as a "good investment," although he did not advocate proselyting or even specifically say that he wanted aid to football men at Yale...
...controversy reached Princeton, where the Daily Princetonian printed an editorial which supported the Big Three Presidents' Agreement and said, "We hope Yale, in spite of Spike Nelson and his undergraduate supporters, sticks by the agreement. If it doesn't, the traditional Yale-Princeton rivalry will be made into a mockery...
...Spike Nelson, the head coach, has a very acceptable list of backs in spite of the loss of Willoughby because of a recent injury. Two unheralded but promising Sophomores are Taylor and Ferguson who alternate at the tailback spot...