Word: spike
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...used to have three institutions at the Academy," said a Navy commander. "Billy goat, Tecumseh and 'Spike' Webb. Now we have only two." Unfortunately, the Navy can do little about its loss. Tecumseh's bronze hide is still proof against the weather and the pranks of midshipmen. Replacing a billy goat is not too difficult, even at Annapolis. But time is beginning to catch up with Spike, the bald and bandy-legged little boxing coach who taught generations of officers and gentlemen to box. He has turned 65, and the rules of the Naval Academy have forced...
...knew him thought that Spike was ready to retire from boxing. Last week some of his old friends were enthusiastically arguing that Spike is a highly trained technical expert and ought to be shipped to Israel as Point Four aid. Spike and Israel heartily agree. Young Israeli gentlemen, they say, would do well to learn their fighting from a master...
...last two decades man has learned to battle the wind: by planting windbreaks and cover crops, by contour plowing to keep precious moisture in the soil, by use of the double-mouldboard lister plow, which ridges the ground and slows down wind action, by "chiseling" the earth with a spike-toothed Hoeme's* plow, which brings clods of subsoil to the surface...
What most present-day detractors of the food don't realize is that although they may occasionally bite into something resembling a spike, the present dining hall system is paradise itself compared to the perpetual state of anarchy that existed prior to 1929--when a Yale man stepped in and gave the University its first organized food system...
Died. Admiral William Henry Purnell ("Spike") Blandy...