Word: spike
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Barkio (Spike Jones; Victor). The City Slickers do a bumptious doghouse lampoon of Arditi's coloratura favorite, Il Bacio. For all their hectic enthusiasm, it falls far short of Clara Cluck's classic henhouse version of the same old standard...
...concept of objective reporting, said he, is basically wrong; the facts need careful interpretation if they are to explain to readers the significance of happenings in the modern world. "Spike" Canham, who has steered the Monitor toward more realistic news coverage by just such stressing of interpretive reporting, explained his philosophy under the headline: HOW TO USE YOUR NEWSPAPER. It was also an important lecture to newsmen on how to edit...
Continuous music for the next two weeks will be played in the following order: popular music, hillbilly, Spike Jones, ballads, Bach, Mozart, the Pre-Classics, Beethoven, the Romanticists, Strauss, Gilbert and Sullivan, and operatic works...
...birds, which can run at a 60 m.p.h. clip, sometimes cripple themselves dashing headlong into fences. But in the mating season a male ostrich will attack a man, can disembowel him with a single downward kick of his two-toed foot, whose claw is the size of a railroad spike...
...addicts learn and change hophead jargon. They call a needle and a syringe a "spike & dripper." A sniff of heroin is a "snort of horse," and an injection under the skin a "joy pop." Many teen-agers quickly become "mainliners" -because it is cheaper and quicker if they inject the drug directly into a vein, most often with a safety pin and an eyedropper...