Word: spike
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Negro laborers, in no hurry to get back to their squalid quarters, repaired to the Mai-Mai, a huge, government-run beer hall that serves the only alcoholic drink legally available to South Africa's blacks, a weak brew officially known as Kaffirbeer (which Negroes often spike...
...WKMF, WSAM, WKHM), Fred Knorr organized an eleven-man syndicate (including Crooner Bing Crosby, who is also vice president of the Pittsburgh Pirates), bought the Tigers from the estate of the late Walter O. Briggs Sr. for $5,500,000, with a promise to keep present President Walter O. ("Spike") Briggs Jr. on the payroll as executive vice president. No one ever paid more for a major league team. (Previous record: $4,550,000, paid by Brewer August A. Busch for the St. Louis Cardinals and ballpark in 1953.) For their money, Fred Knorr and his friends got an arguable...
...Senate seat occupied and defended by Republican Bourke Blakemore Hickenlooper, 59 ardent supporter of the Benson farm program. Hickenlooper won renomination by a two-to-one margin over Attorney General Dayton Countryman, 38, temperance and high price-support advocate. Hick's November opponent will be R. M. ("Spike"') Evans, 65, landowner, onetime AAA administrator under Henry Wallace and a high price-support man who defeated Jefferson Attorney Lumund Wilcox, 43, for the Democratic nomination. In contrast to the Republican vote (down 22,000 from 255,000 in 1954), the Democratic primary vote (110,000) was the largest...
South Africa's bootleg native drink, skokiaan (subject of a recent U.S. hit tune), is usually mixed by "skokiaan queens" who know how to spike it with enough methyl alcohol to provide the jolt that thrills but does not kill. The balance is so easily upset that natives often go mad or blind from the skokiaan they buy in the shebeens of the native quarters...
...aide prompted. "The ball?" echoed His Honor with surprise. "I gave it to some kid." The game itself, complicated by the poor playing surface in Roosevelt Stadium, was a literal comedy of errors (eight of them, five by the Dodgers), and Philadelphia Third Baseman Willie Jones somehow managed to spike himself while running under...