Word: spike
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Representative Clement Miller. 45, voluble, spike-witted liberal Democrat from California's mammoth First Congressional District (San Francisco Bay to Oregon), grandson of a onetime Delaware Republican Governor, author (Member of the House, a collection of informal letters conveying the tempo of Congress to his constituents), and one of twelve liberals linked to the highly incendiary The Liberal Papers, a volume of strong-winded essays on U.S. foreign policy published last March; on a campaign swing for his third term when the twin-engined plane ferrying him crashed on Chaparral Mountain in northern California...
...their appreciation was the visitor's daughter, Galina Brezhnev, a tall, striking blonde of 18, who could well turn out to be the Kremlin's answer to Jackie Kennedy. While Papa toured collective farms and industrial plants, Galina stole the show in her dazzling French dresses, Italian spike heels, and huge, dangling earrings. Making her debut on the diplomatic circuit, she completely overshadowed Nikita Khrushchev's daughter Rada, wife of Izvestia Editor Aleksei Adzhubei, who was also along on the trip. In contrast to Galina's exhibition of haute couture, Rada "left the impression...
...spike heel has made its mark on the U.S. ever since it speared its way into fashion, leaving behind a trail of dented vinyl, punctured Persian rug and pockmarked hardwood. But spike wearers complain that they are forever getting mired in asphalt, countersunk on lawns, trapped on escalator steps and sidewalk gratings. Now comes Heeleze, plastic disks that are to spike heels what snowshoes are to the boot. Heeleze are about an inch overall in diameter, now come in one size but will soon come in three, designed to fit most heels, and are being distributed initially by caterers...
...make one of his twice-daily calls to Hyannisport to check on his vacationing family. Sometimes the President paced in the White House gardens. Or, alone at sundown, he stood on Harry Truman's balcony overlooking the White House fountain, a soothing sight before him: the white spike of the Washington Monument, auto headlights flickering along Executive Avenue, the distant Jefferson Memorial. Perhaps such sights make a President think of his own place in history-but John Kennedy is not a man to stop thinking for long about the present...
...shined her sharptoed, spike-heeled shoe...